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- Roy Halladay’s no-hitter in the NLDS naturally brought back memories of Don Larsen perfect game in the 1956 World Series (and forgive a soapbox moment, but I wish they would stop lumping all post-season records together; Halladay’s marvelous game does not make him and Larsen the only pitchers to throw no-hitters in the playoffs, as I heard one sports pundit say). So I found this review on Lew Paper’s Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, written by Chuck Klosterman, one of my favorite essayists, for Esquire magazine last year.
- Sports Illustrated‘s Jon Wertheim appeared on American Public Radio’s Marketplace to opine on why the Yankees have monopolized the World Series. You can listen to the segment or read the transcript. There are additional links to “Where are the runs,” from Freakonomics Radio; “Kill the umpires and replace them with machines?”; and “World Series may be capitalism lesson.”
- I don’t understand this one at all: “Yanks refuse permission on Steinbrenner letters.”A 77-year-old woman wants to publish a book and include letters written to her by the late Yankees owner. Perhaps this isn’t the whole story — there may be sensitivity issues involved and I don’t know if there are legal ramifications — but if I have the letters — they are my property, written to me — why should anyone else tell me I can’t publish them?
- Darrell Wible will discuss his book Memoirs of an Indiana Broadcaster, 1949-1966, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library.
- Mets All-Star Keith Hernandez and SportsNet New York President Steve Raab will speak at the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on Monday, Oct. 18, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell, CT. Hernandez is the author of (Pure Baseball
, Shea Good Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season
, and If at First: A Season With the Mets
). The breakfast will be held from 7:45 to 9 a.m. Cost is $19 for chamber members and $29 for non-members. For more information, call 860-347-6924.
- Moneyball, the movie, continues apace.
- The Pikes Peak Courier View takes a view at the baseball/sci-fi connection in books and on the screen.
- Author Curt Smith blogs about Bing Crosby’s home movies of Game 7 in the 1960 World Series.
- DMB Historic World Series Replay review Peter Schilling’s novel, The End of Baseball: A Novel
is available on Amazon.com,
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