Bits and Pieces

October 8, 2007

SABRmetric guru Bill James contributed this piece to the Boston Globe on using statistics ti actually improve the game.

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The Writer’s Life blog features this interview with Steven M. Reilly, author of the sports memoir,  The Fat Lady Never Sings: How A High School Football Team Found Redemtpion on the Baseball Diamond.

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LA Observed posted this interview with John Scheibe, who wrote a memoir entitled On the Road With Jim Murray. about his relationship with the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.

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Moment Magazine  published an article about the influence of the Baseball Chapel. Although it is a Jewish publication, the article misses the boat when it fails to ask the retinue of Jewish players how they feel about the issue.  I did an interview with Bob Tufts, a former pitcher for the K.C. Royals and S.F. Giants, who actually converted to Judaism in part because he was so fed up of the Evangelical players he met in his baseball travels.

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