WHEN SENATOR GEORGE Mitchell appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss his eponymous report that had rocked the baseball world, he bristled when Chris Wallace mentioned that some of Mitchell’s conclusions were based on hearsay. Wallace cited the case where Baltimore Oriole Larry Bigbie ratted out his teammate Brian Roberts based solely on Roberts’s alleged confession to Bigbie that he had used steroids. As the lawyers out there know, this is classic hearsay: A statement, other than one made by the declarant, offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.

Here’s how Mitchell responded:

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