Roger I. Abrams, author of The Money Pitch:Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration, Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law, and The First World Series and the baseball Fanatics of 1903 takes an historical look at the seemly side of the game in his latest, as profiled in The Jewish Advocate. (Boston)
Upshot: “A baseball buff’s mettle is tested by their knowledge of little-known facts about the game. But even the most dedicated baseball aficionado is likely to be humbled after reading Roger Abrams’s [book].”
One item of particular interest was that Pud Galvin, a 19th-century pitcher and Hall of Famer, was the first player to receive an injection of testosterone.
Everything old is new again.
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