AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Perhaps Jason Giambi is the comeback kid.
Byline: Eric Gilmore
OAKLAND, Calif. _ When New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi came to Oakland on May 13 to face his former A's team, he was playing a personal game of how low can you go.
Giambi was hitting .198 at the time. He had gone 14 games without a home run. Four years after being the American League's MVP in his final season with the A's, Giambi was facing pressure from his team to go to the minor leagues.
All that came on the heels of the worst season of his major-league career.
What's more, news off the field was even worse for Giambi. His grand jury testimony in the BALCO case in which he admitted using steroids had been leaked to the press during the offseason.
That prompted a very public and embarrassing mea culpa before the season that lacked only Giambi acknowledging specifically what he was apologizing for. …
-
- Giambi's 7 RBI gives Yankees a taste of the past.
-
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
August 29, 2005
700+ words
-
- Athletics' Giambi, Giants' Kent deserve to be most valuable players.
-
News wire article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
September 30, 2000
700+ words
-
- A's show off in this showcase.
-
News wire article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
September 2, 2005
700+ words
-
- A's feel fortunate after so-so first halves.
-
News wire article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
July 12, 2001
700+ words
-
- A's don't doubt Ellis, sign him: The second baseman, who came back from a...
-
News wire article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
January 29, 2006
700+ words
