In the interest of fairness

October 13, 2010

Received this e-mail from author and frequent boo reviwer Allen Barra I wanted to share with you:

Ron,

I just read what you wrote about Jane Leavy’s Mickey Mantle bio and a quote her publicist used regarding my review of her 1990 baseball novel Squeeze Play.

For the record, let me say that I do NOT regard what the publicist did as dishonest or misleading in using just that one line from my review — I do regard Squeeze Play as the best baseball novel written, or at least I did when I wrote it.  Today I might give the nod to Kevin Baker’s Sometimes You See It Coming.

But that is neither here nor there. That’s what I wrote in my review and it’s perfectly valid for them to quote it.

In the note, he also pointed out that I misspelled his name, for which I apologize. Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that the pot (me) is forever calling the kettle (writers who err on he facts) black. So turnabout is fair play, as they used to say on some game show.

And, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, that’s all I have to say on the matter.

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