Bits and pieces

September 11, 2012

Now that the 501 manuscript has been returned to — and received by — the copy editor, I can take a breath and get back to the business of blogging. So here’s an attempt to catch up with a few items from recent days.

♦ The RadioIowa site posted this piece on Bob Meyer, author of Small Town Baseball…Big League Dreams.

♦ The Classical posted this excerpt from Mitchell Nathanson’s A People’s History of Baseball.

♦ Speaking of The Classical, Josh Wilker, author of Cardboard Gods, posted this piece about Joe Rudi on the site.

Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association, posted this list of their top 10 sports books. Two baseball titles made the grade, including The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach (Really? this was number one? Really?) and Fenway 1912, by Glenn Stout.

♦ MLB.com ran this article/video about Tony La Russa and his forthcoming book, One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season, written with “Hall of Fame Spinks Award-winning baseball scribe Rick Hummel,” which comes out Sept. 25.

♦ Jeff Polman hosts blogs about historical baseball fiction (or is it baseball historical fiction?). his current project is Mystery Ball ’58, and his previous such blog, “1924 and You Are There!” has been published in physical book form. He contributed this piece about the Cubs to ChicagoSide.

Finally, ESPN60 conducted this interview with R.A. Dickey, author (with Wayne Coffey) of Wherever I Wind Up:

 

 

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