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McGwire steroid book ranked 94,956 in sales


In case you were wondering how Jay McGwire’s book “Mark and Me: Mark McGwire and the Truth Behind Baseball’s Worst-Kept Secret” is doing, well, today the Barnes & Noble website has it ranked 94,956 in sales and also has slashed the price 28%.

In the book, Jay, an avid body-builder and heavy steroid user, threw his brother under the bus, sharing information with the world that Mark, one of MLB’s most famous sluggers, had managed to keep away from the media, league and fans for years.

The New York Times did a story about there being little intrerest in the book when Jay and his agent were shopping the project around early in 2009.

In an interview with ESPN just prior to the book’s release, Jay told the network the details and types of performance-enhancing drugs he says Big Mac used during a three-year stretch beginning in 1994.

Later in the interview Jay commented on how he was not approached during the steroid investigations saying, “It’s funny, huh? You’d think that you’d want to go to the core of the story.”

Yeah it is funny . . . how people’s lack of interest in the core or any part of the story has it collecting dust on book shelves across the country and currently ranked at 94,956.

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