* Bits and pieces, Oct. 5, 2009

The New York Times Sunday book section carried this double review by Harvey Araton on Mark Frost’s Game Six — this one from the 1975 Red Sox-Reds fall classic (thumbs up) and Lew Paper’s Perfect (lukewarm, at best), a recap of Don Larsen’s 1956 World Series no-hitter.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this piece on popular crime novelist Sara Paretsky’s latest.

“A 40-year-old baseball autographed by onetime Chicago White Sox second-baseman Nellie Fox is the source and double-entendre of the title of Sara Paretsky’s latest novel featuring private detective V.I. Warshawski.”

A commentary in the Kansas City Star by Larry Tye, author of the latest biography about Satchel Paige, on the KC Monarchs’ star.
Tye was also the subject of this interview on Alex Belth’s BronxBanterBlog.
The MetroWest Daily News of Framingham, MA, printed this feature on a battle between two town for the bgragging rights as the inspiration for the classic poem, “Casey at the Bat.”
The New York Daily News‘ Bill Gallo on the collaboration between Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson for their new book, Sixty Feet, Six Inches.
In the “Oh, ick” department, this recap from KansasCity.com, which appears in several other media outlets:

A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze the remains of baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, alleges that Williams’ body was mistreated by the company.

Larry Johnson says in the book Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams’ frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it.

Johnson says he worked for Alcor for eight months in 2003, first as clinical director then as chief operating officer.