A collection of (very) brief entries on several dozen baseball titles from The Bullpen (“baseball’s collaborative encyclopedia”), a wiki-type subsection of the excellent Baseball-reference.com. “Books” fall into a broader “Media” category which also includes broadcaster, authors, writers, fictional abseball teams and characters, ESPN personalities, literature, movies, TV/Radio, and television shows. Like most wikis, this seems to be a work in progress.
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The Washington Nationals have announced that they will name the press box in their new stadium the Shirley Povich Medias Canter after the long-time Washington Post sports columnist. The formal announcement will be made on Sunday, Sept. 16.
Remembering the past: The Nationals announced Tuesday that the press box in Nationals Park will be named the Shirley Povich Media Center, in honor of the late Hall of Fame Baseball writer for The Washington Post. A ceremony celebrating the dedication will be held soon after Nationals Park opens in 2008.
In 2005, the University of Maryland created a chair at their school of journalism in honor of the late scribe.
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From the Aug. 14 Christian Science Monitor, a story about a summer program at MIT that used baseball to teach math and science to a group of middle school students.
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