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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
What I'm reading now:
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between, by Catchcart and Klein
What I just read:
Paul McCarthey: A Life:, by Peter Ames Carlin
Grade: B. Pleasant enough; no sensational material. McCartney could be a right bastard at times, but aren't we all?
What's next:
L'Époque Glorieuse des Expos, by Alain Usereau
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
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My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in

Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell
14 12 2007An excerpt from the press conference:
Commissioner Selig’s response:
Who says only Americans really care about the steroids scandal?
One more response:
A commentary by Sports Illustrated’s redoubtable Tom Verducci. Another from the Business of Baseball Web site. And an in-depth piece from Editor and Publisher, of all places. This one is interesting, because it puts the onus of the problem on the sportswriters who, according to the author of the piece, basically ignored the situation.
SI.com has a slide show of player’s checks submitted as evidence.
Read the entire report here (a PDF file).