Jules Tygiel was instrumental in getting me interested in academic baseball literature. His books on Jackie Robinson were a pleasure to read, not laden with citations and footnotes. He dided just before I went on vacation so I was not able to adequately pay respects.
I wondered how such a “niche” author would be memorialized in the press. At the risk of sounding indelicate, he was not a David Halberstam or other high-profile writer outside his areas.
There have been many tributes paid to him by colleagues and in the West Coast press, some of which I have linked here.
- Baseball Historian combined his two loves (OregonLive).
- Adrian Burgos, author of Playing America’s Game, contributes his thoughts on counterpunch.org.
- His feature obit in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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