<i>Newsday</i>'s take on <i>7</i>

April 9, 2007

<p><a href=”http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-spbest085163079apr08,0,7841122.column?coll=ny-sports-mezz”><em>Newsday</em>’s Neil Best</a> joins the ranks of critics who seem to hate this book.</p><blockquote dir=”ltr” style=”MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px”><p dir=”ltr” style=”MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px”>What this sordid, 286-page mish-mash really is is a biography. But the author has eschewed that term to rationalize an inconvenient truth: He doesn’t have the journalistic goods to back up his content.</p></blockquote><p dir=”ltr” style=”MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px”>In chastizing author Peter Golenbock, Best writes</p><blockquote dir=”ltr” style=”MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px”><p dir=”ltr” style=”MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px”>If only he had worked a little harder on the research, left out some of the fish stories and not had to resort to that disingenuous &quot;novel&quot; dodge.<br /><br />Instead, we are left with a book that reminds a reader of an observation the author puts in Mantle’s words on page 5. He notes the irony of his autobiographies becoming bestsellers over the more serious efforts &quot;of all those great philosophical college-smart writers busting their humps.&quot;<br /><br />Says the quasi-fictional Mick: &quot;Kinda makes a mockery of the book business, don’t it?&quot;</p></blockquote>

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