Bits and pieces

August 30, 2012

Time for the occasional declutter of the accumulated links and stories, so here goes.

“Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd has won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, which honors a nonfiction book on the subject of sports.” More here.

From the Yogi Berra Museum: Former Yankee star second baseman Bobby Richardson, a cornerstone of one baseball’s greatest infields in the early 1960s, will sign copies of his new book Impact Player from 3-4:30 p.m. To reserve a copy, call 973-655-2378.  Richardson will only sign books purchased at the Museum and no memorabilia.

The Atlantic published “How MLB Announcers Favor American Players Over Foreign Ones.” Can’t say that I’m 100 percent in agreement with the findings or the presentation (I would love to see the formal report, but it seems to be available only to certain donors to the author’s Kickstarter project), but here it is for your perusal.

I’d also love to see a Major League team’s internal organizational book, as described in this piece about the St. Louis Cardinals from the Post-Dispatch.

MadeMen offers this list of “10 Fantastic Fictional Baseball Players.” The lineup includes (is this in order of fantasticness?) Ricky Vaughn from Major League; Sam “Mayday” Malone (Cheers); Henry Rowengartner, (Rookie of the Year); Roy Hobbs (The Natural); Ham Porter, (the chubby, mouthy catcher in The Sandlot); Charlie Brown, of Peanuts fame; Bingo Long (The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings); Crash Davis (Bull Durham); Jimmy Dugan, (A League of Their Own); and Kenny Powers, (Eastbound and Down).

The excellent sports site The Classical ran this profile on Glenn Stout, who, in addition to being a prolific baseball author, is the series editor of The Best American Sportswriting annual.

The documentary Knuckleball! was a hit on the film festival circuit recently. Now it’s coming to an (art) theater near you.

Boston Red Sox owner John Henry should maybe think about putting less time in writing a book and more into how to improve his team.

Here’s an announcement of a new book on Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers: Seven Decades of Dominance.

The recent death of Red Sox legend Johnny Presky prompted this from the Canton Patch on David Halberstam’s book, The Teammates.

Pardon me, but isn’t an “animated comic book” basically a cartoon? Would love to see Bottom of the Ninth, but it seems available only for “i”-users.

 

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