Back in college in 1982, I had a friend named Melvin, who through the course of human events* came to be known as “Raise Hell Mel.” My crowd was enough easily amused that we began to incorporate this concept to various Atlanta Braves, and so begat Raise Hell Claudell, Raise Hell Rafael, Raise Hell Pascual, and, most ludicrously, Raise Hell Dale. The joke is that Dale Murphy was widely renowned as a straight arrow, and one of the nicest guys in baseball and possibly planet Earth. Murphy certainly raised heck with National League pitching, though.
Dale Murphy (by Rusty S.)
