The publishing company already sacked “If I did it,” the train wreck of an idea in which O.J. Simpson was to detail exactly how he did kill would have killed his ex-wife. And now they have put the kibosh on “7: The Mickey Mantle Novel,” a pseudo-memoir about the ex-Yankees slugger which was set to go on sale in March but apparently enraged his family. What else is in the hopper, HarperCollins? “A Pictorial History of Jose Canseco’s Nude Sudokus?” Or perhaps “Smoking in the Post: The Stojko Vrankovic Story.”

Update: Will Leitch, the man with the magic fingers over at Deadspin, points out to RandBall that there is one book HarperCollins still plans to publish: His. “The Ballad of Ron Mexico.” Due out in fall 2007, or at least scheduled to be until Will falls prey to some terrible scandal involving a nectarine and a shaved yak.

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