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Meet Author Doug Gladstone

09/23/2010 7:00 pm
09/23/2010 8:00 pm

 

Join us on September 23rd, at 7:00 p.m. for a Book Signing with Doug Gladstone

Author of: A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB and the Players' Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve

 

 

A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve (Paperback)

By Douglas J. Gladstone
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781595715128
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Word Association Publishers, 4/2010
This painstakingly researched book by Douglas J. Gladstone examines the plight of 874 Major League Baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979, all with brief trials in the majors, careers figuratively "just long enough to drink a cup of coffee."

Since 1980, Major League Baseball players have needed one day of service credit for health benefits and 43 days of service credit to be eligible for a retirement allowance, but those former ballplayers who played during the 1947-1979 seasons were not included retroactively in the amended vesting requirement, and so receive no pensions for the time they gave to our national pastime.

These men, the author suggests, have gulped bitter cups of coffee.

In his careful examination of this issue, which includes many interviews with former players and some poignant stories of their plight, Gladstone asks his readers to examine our national relationship to sports and its heroes, as well as our relationships with those who precede us in the game of life.

A lifelong baseball fan, DOUGLAS J. GLADSTONE is a journalist by training, whose published articles have appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Baseball Digest and the San Diego Jewish World, among others. This is his first book.

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I received my Master’s degree

Submitted by doll on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 3:35am.

I received my Master’s degree in Journalism from Boston University in 1982, and was bouncing around newseeklies and dailies for a time. But I’ve always been a huge sports fan. Fact is, my first journalism job was on a now defunct newspaper, The Newburgh Evening News, where I did start out on the sports beat.
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