don’t know a lot about roids but I know acne on the back is a telltale sign of steroid use.

I don't know a lot about 'roids, either, but I was a high school catcher and can tell you that back acne is also a sign of wearing more gear than everyone else and crawling around in the dirt covered in sweat all summer.

This story was not in The Record, but in one of the weeklies owned by the same company.

Murray's town is the same one my parents lived in when I was born. small world.

Murray Chass: GET OFF MY (FAIR) LAWN

Even smaller world, it's the town I live in now... I don't think I've ever run into him though, but given that I just had to look for a picture, it's possible. If I ever do run into him, it should be interesting.

Of the three, I feel strongest about the possibility that Piazza used them than the other two. The reason is because through 2002, his back always had acne. I don’t know a lot about roids but I know acne on the back is a telltale sign of steroid use.

"I'm not a doctor, but I am a gigantic asshat."

If I ever do run into him, it should be interesting.

Especially if you're driving at the time.

Arrgh! I grew up in Fair Lawn! (1962-1972). Now I disown my childhood neighborhood, polluted by THE CAPITAL LETTER SCREAMER

was that in the shopper?

i believe he lives in radburn, not far from one of my relatives.

i wonder if that picture is the first time the blogger has been out of his basement and near a field (is that edison elementary school? could be, if they've put up a fence like that, and it's 1/2 mile from his house; i don't think radburn elementary has something like that)

funniest thing is that this town has 32,000, not exactly a million or something.

I 'served' there from 1961-65.

Hall of Fame baseball writer Murray Chass is an authority on America’s Pastime

“Bonds and Clemens would’ve got into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot without question had they not (been linked to) steroids. Neither received more than 36 percent of the vote,” said Chass.

That there is some expert analysis.

funniest thing is that this town has 32,000, not exactly a million or something.

About 5 times as big as the county I'm from, then. These NE metropolises (metropolii?) fascinate me.

when I was there (and I went to Radburn Elementary! Chass creppily creeps closer to me all the time!), it was amost 40,000 people, in only 5 square miles; and at hte time, there was a regulation that no buildings exceeded two stories. So guess how crowded it was? Just a town of houses, gas stations, grocery stores. The ultimate NYC bedroom community. No school buses; a whole pile of little schools we could all walk to (and go home for lunch). One HS inthe middle of town that was no more than 1.5ish miles from any other place in town. My dad graduated Fair Lawn high in 1955. He went to school with a guy who would later hold the record for the quarter mile, and knew Ron Perranoski.

About 5 times as big as the county I'm from, then. These NE metropolises (metropolii?) fascinate me.

Yes it's an interesting amount of density for low-rise areas, right? I guess there must be places in California that are similar but everything I've seen there has been more spread apart. Bergen County, which includes Fair Lawn, has 900,000 people in total.

There are so many towns and townships in northern NJ that it is impossible to keep track of. I've probably driven through it at least a dozen times and thought I was still in Paramus.

My whole province barely has 750,000.

Bergen's the biggest at 900,000 but spread out over 234 square miles. Essex has 726,000 in 126 square miles and Union has 536,000 in 100 square miles, and how about Union County with 536,000 in Hudson County at 634,000 in 47--count em 47--square miles.

That there is some expert analysis.

sadly its better than 75% of what passes for "expert analysis" in the MSM
I'm mean it's obvious, but that's an improvement over the blunt force stupidity you often see

#12: Not the quarter mile. Dave Sime (Fair Lawn '54) tied the world record in the 100-yard dash (9.3) and set WRs in the 220y (20.0) and 220y Low Hurdles (22.2). He was the Olympic silver medalist in the 100-meter dash in 1960.

Sime was a freshman first baseman at Duke in 1955 when the track coach noticed him. Coach convinced Sime to run a time trial at 100 yards. Sime ran 9.8 in his baseball uniform and almost immediately switched sports.

Local lore has it that the Phillies scouted him but reported that he didn't have good speed! To be fair, Sime was never a good starter, but his top-end speed was probably the best in the world in the 1956-1960 period.

thanks dj, I remembered only half of the story accurately.

My whole province barely has 750,000.

Matt Stairs is a primate!

I think the fence in the picture is actually at the high school football field, not one of the elementary schools.

So Murray Chass is why the gaming store moved to Elmwood Park. Those damn whipper snappers playing Magic and Pokemon. I always think of Abe Simpson when Murray's name comes up.

There are so many towns and townships in northern NJ that it is impossible to keep track of. I've probably driven through it at least a dozen times and thought I was still in Paramus.

Over sixty municipalities and sixty school districts in Bergen county alone. I forget the exact numbers and am not interested enough to look it up. Home rule drove the number of towns; now we have outrageous property taxes.