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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball, by Saul Wisnia.
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout
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My article on Yankees Fantasy Camp appears in the current issue of Broadside Bombers.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
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My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Storyby Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
Grade: A. Still a bit "innocent," but amazingly ahead of its time in deal with its subject matter of mental illness.
What's next:
With a lull in the release of new baseball titles, a re-read of Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.: A Novel
by Robert Coover
Recently acquired:
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* Bruce Weber on National Pastime Radio
April 10, 2009 · 0 comments
Bruce Weber is making the rounds for his new book on umpires. This week, it’s Fresh Air.
As an added bonus (like a box of cereal), the page comes with an excerpt from his book, As They See ‘Em, which was selected for NPR’s “Books We Like.”
More recent baseball items from NPR:
Secret Dirt’s Pivotal Role in Baseball, All Things Considered
Ballparks should be built for fans, not architects, Sweetness and Light, by Frank Deford
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