* Review: Cooperstown Confidential and American Icon

June 21, 2009

By Allen Barra, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Upshot:

“Cooperstown Confidential” is bold, intelligent, gutsy. [Author Zev] Chafets is strongest on what is soon to be the next controversy of the Hall — steroids.

and

… if you don’t like Roger Clemens — and there are so many who don’t that one questions why the authors would call him an “icon” — the book is a treasure trove of unflattering innuendoes.

Beyond this kind of gossip-mongering, the reader will find little new about Clemens’ alleged drug use. The authors even admit that his only real accuser, his former trainer, Brian McNamee, is “not a perfect witness.”

There’s little evidence presented here that drugs actually boosted Clemens’ performance.

So anecdotes and urban legends are transformed into fact.

Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Rpger Clemens, steroids

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