Former Yankees trainer authors new book, "Power and Pinstripes"
– Jeff Mangold, co-author, “Power and Pinstripes: My Years Training the ” 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. I’ve never been in a major league dugout before, so I don’t know the standard operating procedure of broken-bat removal, but it did seem in my a...