Dale Murphy

The two-time NL MVP, 49, is the author of The Scouting Report, a how-to guide to negotiating life as a professional athlete

Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time—but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?

July 4, 1983

We've all seen once-great vets use expansion as a life-support system for their wallets (Dale Murphy, Rockies), and' it's not pretty. Which doesn't mean Wade Boggs, 39, can't find his lifetime .331 stroke one last...

CheersThanks for the wonderful profile of Sam Malone (Everybody Knows His Name. May 24). I happened to be walking outside Memorial Stadium in Baltimore on the day that Lee May hit that shot out of the park. (As soon...