Still trying to catch up from Yankee Fantasy Camp, so we’ll take it a few steps at a time:
- Richard Barbieri writes an intersting “This annotated week in baseball history” for The Hardball Times that deserves mention. The same can be said for Rob Neyer’s postings at ESPN.com, in particular his daily doses (Friday Filberts, Wednesday Wangdoodles, etc.) on his Sweet Spot blog.If you’re gonna get technical on me and say these are not books, etc., I would remind you that a laptop or netbook fits nicely on a bookshelf.
- Baseball Past and Present (“A historical look at the national pastime”) posted this review of The Boys of Summer.
- Bruce Markusen (A Baseball Dynasty: Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s, The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, Tales From The Mets Dugout, and The Orlando Cepeda Story) contributed this profile of Satchel Paige on Hardball Times. Markusen is currently working on a book about iconic baseball cards since the 1960s.
- Michael Hankison at BaseballReflections.com wrote this review of Sixty Feet, Six Inches. Upshot: “a great baseball book.”
- I quite enjoy it when baseball cards return to their roots. Wish they would do it more often (and cut back on these hundreds of subsets).
- Pirates broadcaster Nelson King has self-published his memoirs in Happiness is like a Cur Dog: The Thirty-Year Journey of a Major League Baseball Pitcher and Broadcaster.
- Here’s a shocker: baseball owners back in the day were racists. Film at 11.
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Racists? No way! (hint: see sarcasm)
Racists? No way! (hint: see sarcasm)
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