To celebrate the beginning of the new season, several shows on National Public Radio have included segments on baseball books.
- Dave Winfield, author of Dropping the Ball, Gary Sheffield (Inside Power), and Cait Murphy (Crazy ’08), were all recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. (Also on the Winfield program: an interview with Jessica Rosner and Ben Model, regarding their collaboration on a two-disc DVD, Baseball Films from the SIlent Era: Reel Baseball, 1899-1926.)
- Zack Hample, author of Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, spoke with Scott Simon about the game’s endearing quirks and history.
- Jonah Keri, editor of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, was a guest on the March 30 edition of Talk of the Nation, where he discussed the love affair fans have with statistics.
- Derek Zumsteg, author of The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball, talked Day to Day’s Noah Adams about the “hidden tricks that come with the game.”
- In his regular sports commentary, Frank Deford posits on the desirability of using the instant replay by umpires:
Is there anything more insane than you and me, and thousands — maybe millions — of people sitting at home, slurping a beer and watching a replay which shows clearly that a ball the batter hit was foul, but the four umpires are standing out there in the field debating what they thought they saw when one of them called the ball fair.
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