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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.
Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop
The American Diamond: A Documentary of the Game of Baseball, by Branch Rickey
Congratulations to Charles P. of Long Island City, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, The Might Have Been: A Novel, by Joseph Schuster.
Next up: Long Shot, by Mike Piazza with Lonnie Wheeler.
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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:
Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race, by Larry Colton.
Well-intentioned, but somewhat disappointing in delivery of the intended message. B-.
What I'm reading now
Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, by Allen Barra.
First Impressions: Too soon to tell.
What I'm RE-reading now
Play for a Kingdom by Thomas Dyja.
What's next:
Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend, by Danny Peary and Tom Clavin.
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, by John Sexton
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January 7, 2013 · 0 comments
Well, we’re off to a flying start. My first radio interview for 501, my first attempt at posting an “Event” on the Facebook page and what do I do? I reversed the Eastern/Central thing — I had written 11:30 a.m. Eastern, 12:30 Central, when in actuality, it will be 1:30/12:30.
So if you can take a break at that time, you can hear it on the station’s website, kfor1240.com.
So to be clear that’s 1:30-2 p.m. today EASTERN/12:30-1 CENTRAL/11:30 MOUNTAIN/10:30 PACIFIC. Anywhere else, you’re on your own.