Doctors are sworn into their profession by the Hippocratic oath.

Yet there has been medical remedy available to improve eyesight of baseball players for several years and no medical journal has provided a hint for it's use. Hitting a baseball without good eyesight and eye/hand coordination is virtually impossible at the major league or professional playing level.

I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. I may be mistaken and may be misdirected but I still offer the challenge.

There may be drugs available in the marketplace which society deems inappropriate for use and is called illegal. I will go along with doing a way with illicit drugs that are physically and mentally habit inducing compounds that totally breakdown the normal life giving functions.

Illegal use of illegal drugs and a detriment to our society should be avoided. Laws governing such illicit sales or use should be enforced and not with only lip service. The eradication of illicit drug use needs the full measure of the law on the case.

Now I'm going back to baseball. There has never been a baseball player to lace on a set of baseball cleats who did not try to improve his playing and performance level. If all players simply played the game at a natural level there would be no need to practice. Just go play, you improve and it's not fair to little Johnny, whose mother only lets him come out to play on Wednesday.

I'll bet you the hole of an uneaten doughnut the writer of "In The Shadows" probably had a cup of coffee late at night while writing his book. Coffee probably had some caffeine in it and was a stay awake inducer. Folks I am simply giving you some food for thought. That hole in the doughnut probably is tasteless.

One thing is for cotton picking sure, are is almost sure. All doctors who have ever taken the Hippocratic oath will not say body performance enhancing steroids is good for better eyesight.

Barry Bonds is the only man in modern day baseball still actively playing who has a ghost of a chance of overtaking six (6) of eight (8) all time hitting records of baseball. I fell off the turnip truck coming into town. Accordingly, I know that the only thing contributing to that achievement is some steroid.

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) still talking baseball at http://www.baseballfarming.com for those who like baseball.

I am defending nothing but right is right and wrong is wrong to discern the difference sometimes requires courage to speak.