Had so much fun (and have so much left over), I thought I’d do some more.
- Notes for Bibliophiles found this (very) oldie but goodie.
- Really looking forward to reading The Four Fingers of Death, a novel by Rick Moody, which contains at least a tiny bit of storyline about baseball, as indicated by this excerpt in The Wall Street Journal.
- Congrats to Kansas City artists Todd Peterson, winner of SABR’s t $1,000 Yoseloff-SABR Research Grant. He will use the money to fund trips to the New York Public Library and Library of Congress among other places as he scours through decade after decade of microfilm to uncover and compile every Negro Leagues championship box score and game account possible.
- The Huffington Post posted this list of the 16 Greatest Books About Baseball, according to Caroline Eisenmann and Jessie Kunhardt (although I couldn’t find any indication as to who they are or why their opinions should carry such weight as to end up on the popular blog. Included in the list: Cobb, by Al Stump; Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, by Leigh Montville; Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, by Jane Leavey; Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life, by Richard Ben Cramer; Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train, by Henry W. Thomas; Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch; Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathan Eig; Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, by Charles Alexander; Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, by Robert Creamer; The Summer Game, by Roger Angell; Ball Four, by Jim Bouton and Leonard Schecter; Moneyball, by Michael Lewis; Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, by John Helyar; A False Spring, by Pat Jordan; Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus; and The New Bill James Historical Abstract. Lots of good stuff here. There’s no indication, but I’m assuming the books are listed in order. If that’s the case, I don’t know how the Cobb biography can possibly be number one.
- Before there was George Steinbrenner, there was Charles Finley. Paul Dickson, author of several excellent baseball titles in his own right, reviews Charley Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman, by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius for the Washington Times.
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