The blog Ricklibrarian, “a review of books, websites, movies, or anything worth reviewing with comments about libraries and librarianship” reviews a few baseball titles, including Now Batting, Number …: The Mystique, Superstition, and Lore of Baseball Uniform Numbers by Jack Looney; The Teammates, by David Halberstam; and Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was the World to Me by Phillip Hoose, among others.
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Author Harvey Frommer’s blog, Around the Horn, features reviews of Through a Blue Lens,” a collection of the photographs of Barney Stein who “shot” the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and 50s “and other Special Reads.”
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From Seattlehardball.com and Scout.com, this interview with Bill Nowlin, author of several Red Sox titles.
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The Biz of Baseball web site has mini-profiles of several authors, including John Thorn and Bill Gilbert, along with links to their on web presences.
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ESPN’s Jayson Stark offers columns on the game’s most overrated and underrated players as examples of his new book, The Stark Truth. (If you want an interesting way to kill some time, read his “uesless information” columns at ESPN.com.)
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Tim Kurkjian, another ESPN scribe, gets the review treatment: Baseballtoaster.com’s Bob Timmerman on Is This a Great Game, or What?
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