* Jules Tygiel

July 23, 2008

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.

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