Don’t you think that some intrepid reporter or team will work on uncovering that list of ballplayers who tested positive for steroids for publication sometime soon?
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This two-page overview of three Yankees titles — The Yankees Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci; A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, by Selena Roberts; and American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime, by Thompson, Vinton, O’Keeffe and Red — appears in this weeks New […]
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According to Bill James, those science fiction books we’ve read for generations about “building” superior humans is never far from he truth. In this blog entry by Dan Steinberg on The Sporting News website, James opines that “steroids serve the function of prolonging youth, that fighting aging and death has been one of civilization’s greatest […]
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We might hate the man, for what he did to himself and what he did to besmirch the (relative) cleanliness of the game, but give Jose Canseco his due. He was right about about a lot of things, including players who used. Jonathan Eig, author of a biography of Lou Gehrig — the anti-Canseco — […]
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The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime, by Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red. Knopf, 2009. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the topic du an in baseball lit is steroids/PED. No less than four major titles consider the science and those who use performance […]
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From SFgate.com, the literary master of disaster comments on a teammate’s assertion that he’s persona non grata among the old Oakland As.
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From the MLB portion of Fanhouse.com, this piece on Zev Chafets‘ new and controversial book on the Hall of Fame. And another from The Hardball Times. Upshot: Chafets doesn’t portray himself as a baseball expert, a la Bill James. He clearly is a fan of the game—and a passionate one—make no mistake about it, but […]
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Move over, Jose. Roger Clemens wants to join the band of ballplayers turned … well, words fail me. According to news reports, Clemens is considering writing his own book to answer allegations about his use of PED. During an on-line interview on Houstonist.com, the question was asked, “Do you believe that you will get a […]
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According to this item by Don McKee in the Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you have to buy a present for someone you really don’t like much, take a look at Selena Roberts’ unauthorized biography of Alex Rodriguez. According to the Associated Press, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez has been a major disappointment. Since […]
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Yes, according to this post from The Tao of Stieb, a Toronto-based blog. Last month, we had some time to kill at a Chapters megastore….What we were met with was depressing enough to make us literally (and I mean literally) recoil and walk away. The baseball section was a wall that was almost completely filled […]
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I love Pardon the Interruption, and not just because the show tends to tend to agree with my point of view and vice versa. On yesterday’s show, Messers Wilbon and Kornheiser weighed in on the Raul Ibanez steroids situation, which I had addressed earlier in the afternon. (Funny, but the whole situation stemmed from a […]
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I may be mis-remembering my old classes, so bear with me. Players who are over a “certain age” and are enjoying a good year probably take performance enhancing drugs. The Phillies’ Raul Ibanez is over a “certain age” and is enjoying a good year. Therefore, Raul Ibanez is probably taking PED. This is what it’s […]
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That’s according toMa Hae-young, a Korean pro player (right), in his new book,Yagu Bonsaek “roughly translated as The True Color of Baseball in Korean,” says this article from JoongAng Daily. “During my playing days, I witnessed several players taking banned substances such as steroids on a regular basis,” he writes in the book. “It wasn’t […]
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The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, by Selena Roberts (Harper Collins) There’s a telling reference in Selena Robert’s new expose on Alex Rodriguez: [Rodriguez] pursued his investments with the same conflicted soul. He projected a Mister Rogers benevolence, but he was more like Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life. Reading A-Rod, I got the […]
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August 10, 2009
Last week, Charles McGrath had written about “The Red Sox Nation, Betrayed.” This week, In The Public Editor column in Sunday’s Week in Review section, Clark Hoyt seeks to explain how the Times did the correct thing in its reporting that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were part of the 2003 list of players that […]
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