Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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According to Richard Deitsch’s “Media Circus” column on SI.com, Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Tin Cup), is working on a script of the Fainaru-Wada/Williams book for HBO. “The film will air on HBO (likely in 2009) and will be directed by Shelton if his schedule permits,” writes Deitsch.
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[This appears as a sidebar to the “Class in Session” article in the May/June 2008 issue of ForeWord Magazine.] And now a word from our druggist Raymond Angelo Belliotti’s Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy devotes a chapter to Jose Canseco and the questionable use of performance enhancing drugs. The December 2007 release of the Mitchell Report—the […]
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Dale Tafoya’s examination of Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, and the rest of the Steroid Generation releases. hits the bookstores this week. An excerpt from the book, another in an unfortunately long line of those on the whole sorry subject, is available at Athleticsnation.com.
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Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco When his first book — JUICED: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big — was published in 2005, Jose Canseco received the same enmity as Jim Bouton a generation before. Bouton, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, […]
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From the New York Post, this item about a possible new tell-all steroids title by Kirk Radomski, former Mets clubhouse attendant. And this from the NY Daily News. “When will they ever learn/oh, when will they ever learn?”
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One of the few books that dares to have an open mind about the steroid scandals. From Sports of Boston.com. Uphsot: If you are convinced Barry Bonds used steroids, read this book. It is going where other books have not gone before and that alone makes it worth picking up. Bonds is a horrible human […]
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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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(and not because of the steroid injection metaphor) “Did Roger Clemens lie to us?” [Rep. Tom] Davis said in a release accompanying the report [ released today questioning whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner lied in his testimony before the panel last month]. “Some of the evidence seems to say he did; other information […]
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According to this item in today’s on-line Publisher’s Weekly: As Jose Canseco’s Vindicated arrives in stores, the controversial baseball player’s relationship with former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens is under new scrutiny, as federal authorities investigate whether Clemens committed perjury when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while testifying under oath to a Congressional committee. Canseco’s second […]
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You can read the whole sorry story here.
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but did anyone notice that the co-author of Game of Shadows, the book that blew the cover off of Barry Bonds and the whole steroids scandal, is named Mark Fainaru-Wada. That’s WADA, as in World Anti-Doping Agency. Coincidence? Or destiny? Hmmm.
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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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Unless I’m reading this wrong, that’s what this announcement is saying. Shouler, who already wrote this book a few yeas ago, is seeking a comeback of sorts. Thanks to the shadow of steroids, he’s suggesting taking a fresh look. The Arabic number 609 exceeds 586. But can anyone say with a straight face that Sammy […]
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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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With all the falderol about steroids, congressional hearings, etc., it’s easy to forget the impact this all will have on future generations of fans. Of course, according to the late Tug McGraw’s frozen snowball theory “Astronomers have estimated that in something like 50 million years, our sun will burn out and then the Earth will […]
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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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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
