NEW BOOK SHEDS LIGHT ON BASEBALL PENSION SCANDAL
A Bitter Cup of Coffee Tells Tale of Ex-Big Leaguers Done Wrong
By Major League Baseball and The Players Association
Douglas J. Gladstone's A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees A Curve, will be published by Word Association Publishers on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, Word Association Publisher Dr. Tom Costello announced today.
With a foreword written by the Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Dave Marash, the former ABC News Nightline correspondent who anchored the opening season of Baseball Tonight on ESPN, A Bitter Cup of Coffee tells the true story of a group of former big-league ballplayers denied pensions as a result of the failure of both the league and the union to retroactively amend the vesting requirement change that granted instant pension eligibility to ballplayers in 1980. Prior to that year, ballplayers had to have four years service credit to earn an annuity and medical benefits. Since 1980, however, all they have needed is one day of service credit for health insurance and 43 days of service credit for a pension.
“We are extremely pleased that Douglas J. Gladstone selected Word Association to publish his manuscript, because it truly is investigative journalism at its finest,” continued Dr. Costello. “Doug is a marvelous storyteller and we are confident that A Bitter Cup of Coffee will resonate with, and appeal to, a wide audience of book buyers.”
A resident of the Capital Region of New York, Gladstone's published articles have appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Baseball Digest and the San Diego Jewish World, among others. A Bitter Cup of Coffee is his first book.
Gladstone and many of the ballplayers profiled in the book are available for media interviews. For further information contact Dr. Costello at 724-226-4526 or tom@wordassociation.com.
Word Association Publishers
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A Bitter Cup of Coffee - Press Release 4/2010 
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April 17, 2010 - Hear me chat up A BITTER CUP OF COFFEE on "The Alumni Connection" show on WVCR 88.3 FM The Saint. The program airs at 10:30 a.m, with a special rebroadcast the following evening, on Sunday, April 18th, at 6:30 p.m.
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