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Beyond Steroids: The Trouble With Baseball

By Robert Lipsyte, Tomdispatch.com. Posted June 2, 2007.


In the Bambino, America found its prototype male athlete: the arrogant, self-absorbed rowdy whose excesses, commercial greed, and tunnel vision were justified by winning. The cock-jock has since become a business, entertainment, and political role model.

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Robert Lipsyte, the Jock Culture Correspondent for Tomdispatch.com, is a former sports journalist for the New York Times as well as CBS and NBC network news. His most recent book is the controversial Young Adult novel, Raiders Night. Lipsyte's education in baseball began at the feet of Casey Stengel when he covered the 1962 Mets. He can be reached at Robert@Robertlipsyte.com.

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