Mike Schmidt sat down at a picnic table beyond the left-field wall on a sunny morning at Bright House Field, then scooted over to seek the shade of some palm trees and a light tower. He wasn't taking any chances. The 64-year-old Hall of Famer is recovering from an advanced form of skin cancer that kept him from being a guest instructor with the Philadelphia Phillies in spring training. Schmidt was in camp Sunday and publicly spoke for the first time about his illness -- stage 3 melanoma, and the two operations, radiation and chemotherapy treatments that followed. "I feel fantastic right now," he said. Read more http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10617163/hall-famer-mike-schmidt-recovering-skin-cancer