Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Take a guess at the cover story. If you picked anything other than Manny Ramirez — such as the exciting marquee matchup between the Capitals and Penguins, or Cleveland flying through the NBA playoffs — you’d be WRONG. (Please God, don’t let Selena Roberts get ahold of this one.) Tom Verducci gets cover-story honors with […]
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I never understood why some radio sports talk shows feel the need to televise their programs. Basically you’re just looking at the host talking, or the guest, if there is one in the studio, sitting there on a static shot. Wow. In this case, Mike and Mike in the Morning interview Roger Clemens on the […]
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In his latest ramblings, Clemens claimed his family history of heart disease contraindicated the use of steroids. “Our family has a history of heart conditions,” Clemens told Mike and Mike in the Morning this morning. “My brother had a heart attack in his late 40s. My stepdad died of a heart attack. I mean, it […]
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With the new book about Roger Clemens hitting the stores today, the Rocket has come out of the closet (so to speak), to stick to his guns about his non-use of PED. According to this piece from STATS, Roger Clemens broke his silence Tuesday, again denying that former personal trainer Brian McNamee injected him with […]
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Don’t you just feel so sorry for authors who works so hard to put out a book, then, as soon as it hits the stores, something happens to rendered it outdated? Such is the case for Becoming Manny:Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger, by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg. News that Ramirez was […]
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Remember when I noted that the robert’s book on A-Rod was coming out on May 12? Oc fourse you don’t, which is why I’m putting a link here. Well scratch that. According to the Times, it comes out May 4. “A-Rod, The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” (HarperCollins), by Selena Roberts, asserts that Rodriguez used […]
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First it was the endless chatter about The Yankee Years. Seems the media just couldn’t keep their yaps shut about how Joe Torre dissed his players and bosses, blowing totally out of proportion thefew entries that actually addressed said topics. Well, brace yourselves, boys and girls. It’s about to happen again. When the news first […]
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The cover of SI shows Albert Pujols flexing his muscles and asking baseball fans to believe in him. Sports pundits on shows such as Pardon the Interruption make no bones about saying they;re having a difficult time believing anyone these days, that it’s become a matter of guilty until proven innocent. But with drugs evoling […]
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Can you think of any better way for our elected officials in Washington to spend their time and our money these days on more hearings about baseball and PEDs? According to several articles, including this one from Newsday (Feb. 10): Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) plans to recommend to the head of the congressional committee that […]
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Yeah, I think it’s depressing news on top of what’s been a flurry of depressing items, when it comes to Major League Baseball. And if you’re a fan of Major League Baseball, I think it — it tarnishes an entire era, to some degree. And it’s unfortunate, because I think there are a lot of […]
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According to an AP story by Ronald Blum, Alex Rodriguez has admitted taking banned substances in 2003 and is very sorry. At least it was quick. You know it’s a big deal when the Huffington Post takes notice of a sports story, both in seriousness and in jest.
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Or, “here’s another fine mess.” On a recent episode of PTI, Kornheiser and Wilbon were talking about the latest Barry Bonds situation (i.e., a judge saying evidence against him might be disallowed because of improper procedure) and wondering what that might mean for the slugger’s Hall of Fame chances. Of all of his contemporaries — […]
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Pardon the Interruption led of it’s Jan. 22 show with a report on Jay McGwire’s ratting out his brother Mark with his own tell-all book. Fortunately, that leads off the show, so you don’t have to watch the entire excerpt.
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According to Michael S. Schmidt’s article in today’s Sunday Times, “Contradictions in Book Seem to Benefit Clemens.” Basically it’s Radomski vs. Brain McNamee in claims about who knew what when. One paragraph sums up the whole situation, “In a perjury case a prosecutor’s worst nightmare is for a witness to make public statements that contradicts […]
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There’s no better way than to give an undeserving, self-serving book publicity than to disparage it in the press. That’s what Sen. George Mitchell is doing, giving the former batboy/drug supplier some added buzz (I’m somewhat embarrassed I can even recall his name without looking it up). That’s how Jose Canseco got a whole bunch […]
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“Weighing the Committee Record: A Balanced Review of the Evidence Regarding Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” Is that like FOX News is “clear and balanced?” The official press release: Minority Report: No Easy Answers in Clemens Steroid Use Case Details Don’t All Add Up For Pitcher or Trainer, Investigators Find WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2008 […]
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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.
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* Problems with the new Clemens bio? Here we go again?
March 13, 2009
This item from The New York Times casts another shadow over a new book. In The Rocket Who Fell to Earth, Jeff Pearlman’s new biography on Roger Clemens, the author reports an account offered by an unnamed Yankee episode in which Brian Cashman purportedly took Jason Giambi to task for poor performance by shouting at […]
Tagged as: Brian Cashman, Jason Giambi, Jeff Pearlman, PED, Roger Clemens, steroids
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