Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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I guess John Rocker’s been out of the spotlight too long. Now he says he failed MLB’s drug test back in 2000 and that several members of the Texas Ranges — including Alex Rodriguez — were “advised by management and unions doctors…on how to effectively use steroids.” My first thought was does Rocker have a […]
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PinstripesPA reviews Haunted Baseball by Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley, while Tailgatecrashers post this piece about The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan, by Glenn Guzzo. As the days go by and more attention is paid to the use of amphetamines and other drugs associated with easing ADD/ADHD, Jim Bouton’s Ball Four will […]
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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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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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From Mopupduty.com. Up-shoot: “All in all a slow read but deeply investigates the people and forces that have made baseball in the last 15 years a Juiced Game.”
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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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Publisher Out: Berkley/Penguin In: ? Collaborator Out: Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, who didn’t think there was much left that was newsworthy In: Pablo F. Fenjves, a former National Enquirer writer who was the ghost writer for O.J. Simpson’s latest, which brought down a publishing imprint (Regan Books)
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Jose Canseco’s new project is having some difficulties.
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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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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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There are similarities, according to Jon Friedman of Marketwatch. This wouldn’t be the first time that a baseball player was scorned by sportswriters for telling the truth and hurling a big exclusive in their faces. In 1970, the landmark “Ball Four” was published and set a standard for the genre of sports books. It was […]
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Hot on the release of the Mitchell Report, 60 Minutes aired a segment on Alex Rodriguez, the former and future highest paid player in the game. Among other revelations, the 2007 AL MVP says he has never taken performance enhancing drugs. Of course, everyone is pretty much skeptical of anything any athlete has to say […]
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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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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
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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