Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Kirk Radomski, one of the leading figures in the Mitchell hearings on PED and baseball, will publish a book on his role in the whole mess. Bases Loaded (Hudson Street Press, an imprint of Penguin Books) is due to hit the stores next week. According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times: The 256-page […]
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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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Clemens reports he will also appar on 60 Minutes after the New Year. One might be more likely to believe players had not Pete Rose been so adamant in his denials about his gambling on baseball games. The Amazon Report: The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens Rocket Man: The Roger Clemens Story
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Nothing, according to Bruce Weber in the Dec. Sunday Times “Week in Review Section,” who offers several examples and quotes to back up his philosophy. “Cheating in baseball is just like hot dogs, French fries and cold Cokes,” Billy Martin, the pugnacious former player and manager once declared, a sentiment echoed, in an interview, by […]
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Courtesy of The New York Times.
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An excerpt from the press conference: Commissioner Selig’s response: Who says only Americans really care about the steroids scandal? One more response: A commentary by Sports Illustrated‘s redoubtable Tom Verducci. Another from the Business of Baseball Web site. And an in-depth piece from Editor and Publisher, of all places. This one is interesting, because it […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
December 20, 2007
I heard about Curt Schilling’s lengthy entry on his Blog about the Clemens/PED. If you print it out, you can put in on your bookshelf, so even though I normally wouldn’t link to it, here it is. I’ve heard sports pundits discussing Clemens’ refutation of the allegations found in the Mitchell Report. They pretty much […]
Tagged as: Curt Schilling, Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens, steroids
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