Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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According to an AP report, Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer was awarded $890,000 for a botched cataract surgery. That such make his recovery a little easier to take. In 1996, Palmer wrote about his sometimes stormy relationship with his manager, Earl Weaver. Publisher’s Weekly called the book “a fast-moving and witty account” of their […]
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According to a Jan. 29 column by ESPN’s Tim Keown. The upshot: The bulk of the report is a skull-crushing dissection of nearly every start the man ever made. It is placed in the context of run support and other factors I think are supposed to make you believe Clemens is just a guy trying […]
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This report will evaluate the career of Roger Clemens, one of the most successful pitchers in major league history. It will examine both the quality and quantity of his pitching over the course of his 24-year career. As of the 2007 season, Clemens was one of the twenty-nine active major league players who were at […]
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s investigation into the use performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball
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What happened after 60 Minutes?
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The publisher-to-be-named-later for Vindicated has been announced. And the award goes to: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, who expects the book to be released in time for opening day. According to an item in today’s New York Times, Jennifer Bergstrom, publisher of Simon Spotlight, said Bret Saxon, Canseco’s book agent, called her […]
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Having trouble keeping straight how involved your favorite ballplayer is in the PED web? Thanks to Slate.com and the marvels of the social network movement, here’s a handy interactive chart. Remember when you couldn’t tell the players without scorecard? Now you can’t tell most of them apart without a specimen cup.
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In a recent “Inside Baseball” column, Sports Illustrated‘s John Donovan gives fans something in which they can take comfort: The All-Clean Team. The list includes: Alex Rodriguez Ken Griffey, Jr. Albert Pujols Frank Thomas Vladamir Guerrero Greg Maddux Pedro Martinez Ichiro Suzuki He tosses kudos to a few more, including Jeter, Glavine, Smoltz, Vizquel, Randy […]
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From NPR’s Morning Edition, this report of Congressional hearings on baseball and steroids. Eric Fisher, a writer for the Sports Business Journal, previews the testimony of baseball officials with Renee Montagne.
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when he asks in his column of Jan. 28 issue, “How do you put an asterisk on the best moment of your life? For him, and many Red Sox/Clemens fans, it was the second time he struck out 20. It came in a mediocre season against the Detroit Tiers and he movingly recreates the emotions […]
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A couple of entries ago, I pondered how experts in body language might assess Roger Clemens’ appearance on 60 Minutes. Ask and ye shall receive. Yesterday the Houston Chronicle published this piece, posted within hours of the segment, and today The New York Times did this one based on his Jan. 7 press conference. There […]
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In a way I feel bad for Roger Clemens. In a sense, one of his comments on tonight’s 60 Minutes was right: America (or at least some of its baseball fans), have reached a point where it’s guilty until proven innocent. To my mind, Clemens did not convince me of his innocence. I wonder if […]
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With the glut of books on baseball and steroids about to hit the bookstores, it would seem that writers have been aching for the Mitchell Report to come out. But as anyone who knows the publishing process will tell you, these projects are planned well in advance. Nevertheless, here’s another one, from the pen/typewriter/computer of […]
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According to an Associated Press report, Roger Clemens admits to receiving injections…of painkillers and vitamins. Clemens made the admission during his 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace. The segment will be aired Sunday, jan. 6. During the CBS interview, recorded last Friday at Clemens’ home in Katy, Texas, Clemens was asked whether McNamee had injected […]
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60 Minutes is slated to air the Roger Clemens mia non-cupla segment on Jan. 6, but pundits are already weighing in with their opinions. Is this fair? Will it have the deleterious effect of prejudicing an audience that’s still on the fence? Here’s part of Jon Friedman’s take on Marketwatch.com: Would Clemens have consented to […]
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One blogger speaks for many when he reports that “Jose Canseco is getting on my nerves.”
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Penguin Books, which usually lends itself to more prestigious fare, will publish Jose Canseco’s sequel, Vindicated, according to this brief from yesterday’s Publisher’s Weekly. Y’all can get some sleep now.
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From The New York Times, Dec. 31 “Dusenberry was born on April 28, 1936, in Brooklyn, the eldest child of a cab driver. He attended Emory & Henry College, in Virginia, on a baseball scholarship, but he dropped out after the athletic program and his scholarship were discontinued….” “Mr. Dusenberry also dabbled in the film […]
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I can’t remember which TV sports pundit said it, but it’s a good point: If the players Canseco has named so far haven’t taken PED, wouldn’t you think they’d have looked into civil suits? Well now it’s reported he’s going to name more athletes in his new book, Vindicated, which is due out in the […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
