George Steinbrenner is headed up to New York for Game One of the World Series tomorrow night, and guess who he’ll get to read about in the morning papers?
It’s John Dowd, the investigator who got the Boss banned from the majors for life back in 1990. Mr. Dowd, an Read More
Media-hyped distractions are as common as politicians under investigation these days, but none seemed more complicated than the Jan. 9 appearance of a former baseball player, Pete Rose, at a Borders bookstore on lower Broadway.
At noon, the line of reporters and photographers was longer than the one for book-buyers as Mr. Rose signed his Read More
Sideline “reporters” are the bane of televised sports. Assigned to roam the grandstands and benches in search of “color,” they specialize in the shallow and obvious. They are ready to celebrate the flimsiest achievement of their interview subjects.
And then there is Jim Gray, the NBC reporter whose highly charged interview with disgraced baseball star Read More
David A. Kaplan has a 110,000-word manuscript rife with wild tales of millionaires scheming, whining and stabbing each other in the back, all in the name of America’s greediest pastime. The behind-the-scenes stories come from baseball’s last commissioner, Francis T. (Fay) Vincent Jr., and therein lies the problem: Mr. Kaplan, a senior writer at Newsweek Read More
