The MLB Giants have canceled an order for 500 copies of
Hank Greenwald's autobiography after they learned the team's
former broadcaster had "taken shots" at the club, according
to John Shea of the S.F. EXAMINER. Giants Senior
VP/Business Operations Pat Gallagher: "We don't have any ill
will toward Hank, but you really can't have it both ways.
We wish him well with the book, but if he's going to write
negative things about the organization, we respectively
exercise the right not to carry it." Greenwald was
"particularly critical" of Exec VP Larry Baer and LF Barry
Bonds, as Greenwald wrote that Bonds "had many skills as a
ballplayer and few as a person." On Baer, Greenwald wrote,
"It was obvious what little respect Baer had for the radio
broadcasts, or for me." Woodford Press Editor & Publisher
David Burgin called the cancellation a "violation of the
First Amendment by the Giants. They have a right to sell
what they want, but it seems they're depriving fans of what
Hank has to say." Greenwald said, "I'm not the first to
take a shot at Barry Bonds ... I've been told that I've
trashed the organization. I don't think I did. ... I'd
leave that for the readers to decide" (S.F. EXAMINER, 4/20).
