Steve Kettman submitted this rather lengthy Letter to the Editor to The New York Times (Dec. 19) in which he states, among other things, that the Mitchell Report “immediately recasts the importance of the small library of books documenting — and in some cases, shaping — baseball’s steroid era.”
This should be taken with a grain of salt:
“[A]s the ghostwriter for Jose Canseco’s tell-all memoir “Juiced,” I can now reveal that serious thought was given to including Canseco’s recollections of golf course conversations with [Roger] Clemens about steroids. At the time, we decided to focus on players Canseco injected — since those revelations would carry the maximum impact.”
Kettman cites three books on the subject — Howard Bryant’s Juicing the Game, Game of Shadows, and, of course, his own Juiced — as “the three most visible — and influential — books on the steroid era.”
The Mitchell report adds to the case that Canseco was a unique figure in introducing other players to steroids — and that his assertions in “Juiced” were on target.
Looking back on how this story has unfolded over the last 10 years, it becomes clear how easy it is for those with a vested interest in obfuscation to cast doubt on the credibility of just about anyone.
His letter, which runs with the head line, ‘”Juiced’ Ghostwriter: I Told You So,” strikes me as extremely self-serving, the rantings of someone who wishes to benefit, through additional book sales, from the suffering, however deserved, of others through the guise of public service.
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Am I the only person on the planet that is wondering how agents have kept themselves out of the muck in the steroid scandal?
Like the owners who looked the other way, agents have a vested interest in keeping the players on the field, regardless of their sins.
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