Would be kind of neat to try with baseball books.
I wonder how long this took to put together?
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January 11, 2012 · 0 comments
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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.
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel, by David Stinson
Congratulations to Scott P. of Rochester, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn.
Next up: Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball, by Molly Lawless.
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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:
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball, by R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey.
Amazingly sensitive and surprisingly literate effort by Dickey and Coffey. A
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
A serviceable, nostalgic look at the Amazin's in their heyday. B
Calico Joe, by John Grisham
Grisham's first baseball novel is emotional, if a bit predictable. B
What I'm reading now
Extra Innings, by Bruce Spitzer
Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team, edited by Rob Fleder
What's next:
Butterfly Winter, by W.P. Kinsella
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