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By Rob Neyer 5/30/05 12:00am

Rewinding Basketball’s Clock To a Record-Setting Moment

Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era, by Gary M. Pomerantz. Crown, 288 pages, $24.95.

This is the Age of Subtitles. If you write a serious work of historical nonfiction, you’ve got to come up with a good title-and also a subtitle that says everything the title doesn’t. Read More

By Rob Neyer 2/21/05 12:00am

Canseco, Steroids, Pitch-Man, All Pumped Up, Nowhere to Go

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, by Jose Canseco. Regan Books, 290 pages, $25.95.

Before the release of Jose Canseco’s Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, the word most often heard in conversations about the book was “credibility.” As in: The author’s got Read More