Geez, Andrea, why wait 25 years to make this "admission?" I watched that final, and you were -- and would have been -- outclassed by Martina, who is the best grass-court player of the last 2 generations. How sad it is that you beat Billie Jean in the semis, as she would have given 100% against Martina in the final. You betrayed your fans and you betrayed the sport that was pretty good to you, Andrea. You know, the sport that enabled you to do the good works you now do for our young people. If you're looking for absolution, you'll not get it from me.

Also, the relationship between Andrea and her father back then was troubled, to say the least. Everyone who followed tennis knew that. How was Martina to know that Andrea's row with her father wasn't just more of the same. What specifically did Andrea say to Martina about it at the time? Why was it Martina's responsibility to referee yet another fight between Andrea and her father? Why do people continually try to discredit Martina's significant accomplishments on and off the court? Martina has done nothing throughout her career except be a professional on the court, while enduring a great deal of #### from society off the court. Being a lesbian used to be a lot more difficult than it is now.

I know that Andrea was just a teenager in 1983. I thought, through her good works with young people now, that she had grown up. Apparently not.

A response to Don't get sentimental about Babe being passed:

Your comments are right on the mark, particularly those discussing the park-aided statistics of a left-handed power hitter in 1920s and '30s Yankee Stadium (Bonds also has benefitted from short right-field porches at both Candlestick and A####mp;T Parks, although Candlestick was a terrible park for ANY kind of offense). Today's journalism -- or, more to the point, "entertainminfosensationalism" -- would have nailed the Bambino to the wall on the #### he did. I'm not excusing Bonds from his crime (and I'm not excusing Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmero or Sammy Sosa, either), but Ruth wasn't the perfect baseball icon many now try to portray him as.

Isn't it interesting that as Pete Rose closed in on and then passed Ty Cobb for the all-time hits record that no one tried to gloss over Cobb's racism or thuggery. Why? The media that covered Cobb and Ruth was pretty much the same. Why has Ruth, for the most part, gotten a free pass and Cobb hasn't?

Perhaps the legend has outgrown the man and his ACTUAL accomplishments. To quote the line from the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."