Open Phones: Mitchell Report on Steroids and Baseball

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

Jim Bouton, former Yankee pitcher and author of the books, Ball Four, (Wiley, John & Sons, 1970) and Foul Ball: MY Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark (Bulldog Publishing, 2003)and Robert Kheel, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball and if there is any legal weight to the Mitchell Report.

Then, listeners tell us what conversations they have had with their kids about the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Baseball.

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