Steroids, homosexuality, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, even Vin Scully ... Mike Piazza’s new memoir, “Long Shot”, is loaded with all sorts of touchy subjects!
The weirdest thing in Mike Piazza’s book
Yes, I’m still reading it. Yes, I’m almost finished. Finally. And yes, I will be requesting extra hazard pay from my employers. Anyway, here’s Piazza’s take on Tom Glavine, his teammate with the Mets for a few years ...
Okay, so here’s the weird thing ... I cannot find any evidence that Tom Glavine ever did a book called Home of the Brave. Glavine did “write” a book called None But the Braves: A Pitcher, A Team, A Champion. I have it. But that was published not “later” but rather in 1996, seven years before Glavine joined the Mets and became Piazza’s teammate. There’s never been a baseball book called Home of the Brave, and it’s strange that nobody picked up on that before publication of Piazza’s book; I mean, if you’re going to criticize an ex-teammate -- and probably a fellow Hall of Famer someday -- you’d probably want to make sure you get something like that right.
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