So much for rapper Jay-Z’s boast that he made the Yankee hat “more famous than a Yankee can.” My brother never heard of him!
He emailed me this morning after reading my squawk talking about how Bill Madden messed up his Jay-Z reference to the anthem “Empire State of Mind” in the new “Steinbrenner” book. “I have never heard this ‘song’ and didn’t even know he wore a Yankee cap,” my brother wrote me. When I called him to ask him to elaborate on this, he said he could name lots of Yankees – A-Rod, and Jeter, and CC, and even Javy! But he didn’t know anything about this Jay-Z character. Therefore, how could Jay-Z have made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can? Now there’s a question for the ages!
My brother also sent me a link to Michael Shapiro’s review of “Steinbrenner” for the New York Times. The article illustrates one of my pet peeves about book reviews – they too frequently illustrate the reviewer’s biases, more than they tell people if the book is worth reading. In this case, the reviewer clearly despises Steinbrenner and everything he stands for, so the article is more about his hatred for George than anything else. Shapiro does write this blurbish comment, though:
Reading the book feels like the literary equivalent of passing a traffic accident; it is all but impossible to turn away.
That tired old cliche makes it into the New York Times? C’mon now.
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