tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post7959447808991589060..comments2023-10-28T08:31:25.462-04:00Comments on Subway Squawkers - A Yankees-Mets Rivalry Blog: Latest "Steinbrenner" book needs a fact-checkerSubway Squawkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156896665605326549noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-11599606857665150822010-05-28T01:33:09.312-04:002010-05-28T01:33:09.312-04:00I think you should give it a second chance, Lisa. ...I think you should give it a second chance, Lisa. I read it and thought it was great. I really think those two issues are trivial. The book was a great read.Sports Talk with Justin and Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716574119530405889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-43801406858131824562010-05-21T20:59:51.058-04:002010-05-21T20:59:51.058-04:00Well, I haven't read the Steinbrenner bio yet....Well, I haven't read the Steinbrenner bio yet. I have read the new bio of Reggie Jackson, and while it seems not to have any provable factual errors -- unlike Reggie's own storytelling, sad to say -- it's a major hatchet-job, and not just on its main subject. George doesn't come off too well in it, either. Hardly anybody does, outside of some of Reggie's Oakland teammates and manager Dick Williams.<br /><br />But Bill Madden is a Hall of Fame sportswriter. He should know better than to let mistakes like those slip. I can understand if he's not a Jay-Z fan and heard the lyric wrong (and I can certainly understand if he was staring at Alicia Keys), but how hard is it to look up the lyrics? And as for Game 2 of the 2000 World Series, that game was kind of memorable, what with the Clemens bat-throw. Maybe Madden had it confused with another Met World Series? That's not it, since they come so rarely it's hard to confuse them!<br /><br />I als haven't yet read the new bios of Roger Maris and Thurman Munson. I'm hoping they're better.Uncle Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618876073064128027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-52165389667227198592010-05-21T17:13:11.688-04:002010-05-21T17:13:11.688-04:00That drives me crazy, Lisa: authors who don't ...That drives me crazy, Lisa: authors who don't bother to check the facts. I read that awful Johnny Damon book, "Idiot" back in 2005, and it was so full of errors (typos and factual mistakes) that I felt embarrassed to be reading it (and for the record, it was while he was still with the Sox). Peter Golenbock should be ashamed that a book like that with so many factual mistakes came out. <br /><br />And I have just about no respect for Bill Madden. So thanks for the heads-up about this rubbish as well.BklynSoxFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512844600688808055noreply@blogger.com