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Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco When his first book — JUICED: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big — was published in 2005, Jose Canseco received the same enmity as Jim Bouton a generation before. Bouton, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, [...]
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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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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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José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book “Juiced,” offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder “clear” in his next book if the player invested money in a film project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the [...]
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Publisher Out: Berkley/Penguin In: ? Collaborator Out: Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, who didn’t think there was much left that was newsworthy In: Pablo F. Fenjves, a former National Enquirer writer who was the ghost writer for O.J. Simpson’s latest, which brought down a publishing imprint (Regan Books)
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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.
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
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My article on Yankees Fantasy Camp appears in the current issue of Broadside Bombers.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story
Grade: A. Still a bit "innocent," but amazingly ahead of its time in deal with its subject matter of mental illness.
What's next:
With a lull in the release of new baseball titles, a re-read of Brittle Innings
Recently acquired:
Nothing lately
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