Burning the book is one thing, burning the House That Ruth Built is another altogether!
The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author tells us that his biography of the future Hall of Famer, tentatively titled “The Importance of Being Alex: A Life With the Yankees,” has been “shelved for the time being.”
The book, which will highlight Rodriguez’s historical feats on the field and his headline-generating behavior off of it, was scheduled to hit stores in April 2014 when we first told you about the project last August.
Cramer, whose works have included eye-opening, deeply researched looks into the lives of Yankee great Joe DiMaggio and Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams, is famous for taking his time and described the A-Rod project as “in abeyance.”
That should be music to Rodriguez’s ears. As one of sports most polarizing figures, A-Rod, who is signed to the Bronx Bombers through the 2017 season, might not have to deal with any backlash from the book until after retirement.
...Whether A-Rod will still grant access once Cramer returns to the project remains to be seen.
“As far as I know, we didn’t part with any acrimony,” the 61-year-old Cramer noted, though he added: “I haven’t talked to (Rodriguez) lately.”
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Posted: June 05, 2012 at 03:33 PM |
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1. Nasty Nate Posted: June 05, 2012 at 03:45 PM (#4149027)Amazing that The Rod spent 9 years in the minors before being called up to the bigs in 2004...
// throws centaur hoof
April 2014 -- if ARod had kept on a 30 HR a season pace, he'd be ready to pass Ruth in 2014 (still has an outside shot at it). If he'd returned to a higher pace, he might have had a chance at Aaron and Bonds. As it is, it might be lucky if he plays more than 100 games in 2014.
I see he has rebounded from his early slump to match his rate stats of the last couple of years and is still chugging along at a 3.5-4 WAR pace.
Rational, responsible minds assume: yes.
EDIT: I'm just realizing now that Robert Creamer and Ben Cramer are different people.
Yeah - he's not as important and hasn't done much of interest lately. If he nears some record or tests positive for roids or generates some kind of heat, this book will probably get into print in a hurry.
What? Since when do they let admitted roiders in to sacrosanct Cooperstown?
Since Andy Pettitte was elected in 2018.
funny to see "acrimony" used in a sentence related to A-Rod, who - if asked to guess what it means - would speculate it was one of the substances he injected back in the day....
funny to see "acrimony" used in a sentence related to A-Rod, who - if asked to guess what it means - would speculate it was one of the substances he injected back in the day....
Don't know why you would say this. Alex always struck me as intelligent. It's not like acrimony is very strange word.
HGH is the accupuncture of banned substances. Nobody knows how it works or why it works, nobody can demonstrate that it DOES work, but people assume it must work if other people are doing it. It's crap.
It is as far as the HOF goes.
(FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT!)
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