“Yes, I wanted it, so I took it. And I later sold it.”
– Jeff Mangold, co-author, “Power and Pinstripes: My Years Training the New York Yankees”
As I was reading Jeff Mangold’s new book, that was the second main item that preceded an eyebrow raise. The “it” to which Mangold, the former Yankees strength and conditioning coach, referred in the quote above was the barrel end of Mike Piazza’s bat — more specifically, the shard that Roger Clemens dismissively flung toward Piazza in the 2000 World Series.