Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Hitters on Confronting Baseball’s Most Intimidating Pitcher By Jonathan Mayo. The Lyons press, 2008. Mayo, a senior writer for MLB.com, had his book ready to go before the Mitchell Report was released last month. One can only imagine what he thought about the trickle-down effect caused by the revelation that Clemens was about to replace […]
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You can read the whole sorry story here.
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Mark Feinsand’s “Blogging the Bombers” column notes two books with ties to the Yankees. As the team heads into its final year at Yankee Stadium, look for more books like Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, which capture the rich history of the ballpark. The other book is noteworthy for a more ironic reason. Jonathan Mayo […]
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The New York Times “Play” supplement is turning into one of the better sports magazines around. Combining the newspaper’s reputation for journalism with slick production makes it entertaining and informative without making the reader feel guilty about wasting time reading about frivolous topics. The latest edition gives plenty of “ink” the the Clemens-McNamee hearings, along […]
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…[I]t was mostly Republicans backing Clemens. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, considering that the pitcher is a close friend of George H.W. Bush, “even building a horseshoe pit at his home for the former president,” according to a 2006 USA Today article. While it’s a commonly held notion that most jocks—and almost all jock politicians—lean […]
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From the Oversight Committee web site, this helpful collection of affidavits and other information. A list of committee members. 2:06 Now Clemens is reading a statement from his wife, Debbie, on the use of HGH. I guess the point was to exonerate Roger from knowledge that she used it.If it were me, and my wife […]
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I’m a journalist by profession, so I understand that headlines sell newspapers. I’m also a consumer, so I get annoyed when I feel cheated by a headline that seduces me into buying but inaccurately tells the story. While opening my web browser, I read under the recent news section “Clemens struggles under testimony.” Maybe it’s […]
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(Note: In the interest of speed, I’m not going to be concerned with typos nor other editing. Here’s a link to the live hearings, if you happen to be reading this in a timely manner.) 12:03 p.m. Just tuned in to the hearings via computer. McNamee is being interviewed. I know I came late to […]
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Brian McNamee claims he injected Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with HGH for the couple’s appearance in SI‘s 2003 swimsuit edition. Now McNamee has a new list of enemies. It’s one thing to besmirch the National Pastime, but when you start messin’ with that other great American institution, well them’s fighting words. ESPN’s Jim Caple makes […]
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Of late, I have wondered about the ethics of friendship. I’ve been watching The Wire, a cop /newspaper drama in which people do questionable things for ostensibly noble purposes. In one episode, a superior officer chastises a patrolman for an unquestionably wrong act against a citizen who honked his horn at a crime scene. Although […]
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An entry in the NY Daily News‘ “Subway Squawkers” blog connects the dots between Roger Clemens and Jose Canseco through excerpts from Juiced. As this evidence has not yet been released to the public, I don’t yet know how damning this is. What I do know is what Canseco wrote about Clemens in his book, […]
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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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What happened after 60 Minutes?
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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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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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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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