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The New York Dailly News reports that Jose Canseco and his lawyer,, Robert Saunooke, have “parted ways.” “What’s percolating is I don’t represent him anymore. I terminated my relationship with him,” said Saunooke. “Just moving on. It’s a number of things. Irreconcilable differences, disagreement on some issues. I just don’t need the hassle anymore.”
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Okay, it’s been at least five minutes since we’ve heard anything about Jose Hemingway. For those of you who need a fix, here are a few crumbs: The Week is an interesting publication, kind of like a condense Reader’s Digest offering snippets from other publications on the major events of the last seven days. As [...]
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They’re coming in fast and furious now. Selena Roberts on SI.com writes that Canseco’s allegations about other players who use warrant further scrutiny. “It’s up to baseball’s new detective squad to unearth the truth about A-Rod, about Ordonez, about their owners, before Canseco makes it a trilogy.” Chris Olds of the Orlando Sentinel calls Vindicated [...]
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How come we’re not hearing much about Vindicated these days? Just a week ago it was such hot news. Now, nothing. I imagine I’ll be reviewing it at some point, but so far I haven’t seen it among any of the baseball book reviews published so far.
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I felt it was my duty to report that Canseco will be the subject of a Nightline segment this evening. As a bonus, the page links to an excerpt from Vindicated. Man, that show has gone downhill since Ted Koppel left.
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Yeah, I know what I said, but here are a few fallout items of note on the Canseco project. The most “impressive” of the bunch comes from the mind of Pat Jordan on Deadspin.com, who started the whole ballplayer-as-writer business with his 1960 books A Short Season and The Pennant Race. He comes to the [...]
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I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing all the news that comes out about Vindicated. They’re pretty much rehashings of the same story, Rodriguez this, Ordonez that, blah, blah, blah. Here’s a piece from today’s New York Times; it will probably be the last from the Bookshelf until the actual reviews start [...]
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“Weighing the Committee Record: A Balanced Review of the Evidence Regarding Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” Is that like FOX News is “clear and balanced?” The official press release: Minority Report: No Easy Answers in Clemens Steroid Use Case Details Don’t All Add Up For Pitcher or Trainer, Investigators Find WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2008 [...]
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According to this item in today’s on-line Publisher’s Weekly: As Jose Canseco’s Vindicated arrives in stores, the controversial baseball player’s relationship with former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens is under new scrutiny, as federal authorities investigate whether Clemens committed perjury when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while testifying under oath to a Congressional committee. Canseco’s second [...]
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According to this piece in the New York Daily News, Jose Canseco’s book tours in California “may take an abrupt detour: The former slugger and admitted steroid user is expected to have a face-to-face meeting with IRS special agent Jeff Novitzky, the government’s lead steroid investigator who is now focusing his efforts on whether pitcher [...]
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From The Deadbolt News, a report on the “opening night” of Jose Canseco’s author tour, which begins Monday, March 31 on Letterman. According to the official CBS press release, “Canseco will appear on the LATE SHOW to promote his new book, Vindicated, which will be published on the following day, Tuesday, April 1. Vindicated is [...]
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As Opening Day approaches, the warm thoughts of afternoons in the sun will be obliterated by the cloud that is the steroids scandal. Jose Canseco, our guest “meteorologist,” is back with his sequel. The March 17 Publisher’s Weekly offers this feature on how the buzz about Canesco’s latest literary contribution is is stealing the thunder [...]
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An entry in the NY Daily News‘ “Subway Squawkers” blog connects the dots between Roger Clemens and Jose Canseco through excerpts from Juiced. As this evidence has not yet been released to the public, I don’t yet know how damning this is. What I do know is what Canseco wrote about Clemens in his book, [...]
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Jose Canseco’s new project is having some difficulties.
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One blogger speaks for many when he reports that “Jose Canseco is getting on my nerves.” [digg=http://digg.com/arts_culture/Canseco_s_book_redux]
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Penguin Books, which usually lends itself to more prestigious fare, will publish Jose Canseco’s sequel, Vindicated, according to this brief from yesterday’s Publisher’s Weekly. Y’all can get some sleep now. [digg=http://digg.com/arts_culture/Canseco_s_Vinidcation]
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I can’t remember which TV sports pundit said it, but it’s a good point: If the players Canseco has named so far haven’t taken PED, wouldn’t you think they’d have looked into civil suits? Well now it’s reported he’s going to name more athletes in his new book, Vindicated, which is due out in the [...]
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There are similarities, according to Jon Friedman of Marketwatch. This wouldn’t be the first time that a baseball player was scorned by sportswriters for telling the truth and hurling a big exclusive in their faces. In 1970, the landmark “Ball Four” was published and set a standard for the genre of sports books. It was [...]
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
Congratulations to Scott P. of Rochester, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
Next up: Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball
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What I just read:
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Amazingly sensitive and surprisingly literate effort by Dickey and Coffey. A
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets
A serviceable, nostalgic look at the Amazin's in their heyday. B
Calico Joe
Grisham's first baseball novel is emotional, if a bit predictable. B
What I'm reading now
Extra Innings
Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
What's next:
Butterfly Winter
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