In an attempt to clean out all the accumulated links from my Google alerts, this will incorporate the semi-regular “review roundups” with author announcements, etc. You’ll also forgive me if some of these have appeared before; I’m just too damn lazy to go through each one to double-check. My Apologies. Anyway, enjoy.
- Five nostalgic books on baseball (Chicago Tribune)
- A triple-shot of great baseball nonfiction (Dallas Morning News)
- More than a pastime for the S’Klallam (Kingston Community News; Native American baseball)
- Open Baseball Season with Brilliant Comics and Art by Wilfred Santiago and Mark Chiarello (Comics Alliance; graphic novels about baseball)
- Bookmarked: Nailed! (Philly.com review of new Lenny Dykstra book)
- Baseball history in cartoonist’s vision (The Island Now, about Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings, 1934-1972
- Books celebrate Cleveland Indians of almost 100 years ago (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- New Play Ball e-book features Jackie’s fortitude (MLB.com; HarperCollins and Major League Baseball Advanced Media on the release of an enhanced e-book with multimedia capabilities)
- The boys of summer, past and present (Los Angeles Times re: Kahn’s classic book)
- New book about Red Sox has chapter devoted to PHS baseball streak (Seacoastonline.com; How the Red Sox Explain New England)
- E-town professor edits book of Jackie Robinson’s newspaper columns (Lancaster Newspapers; a book of Robinson’s civil rights letters in 2007, has now edited a selection of his columns in Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball)
- Appreciating the Entirety of Jackie Robinson’s Legacy (Opposing Views; Baseball has Done It)
- Jewish baseball players, personnel featured in book (Sun-Sentinel; American Jews & America’s Game; Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball)
- Author examines ’46 baseball season in The Victory Season (Visalia Times-Delta)
- Baseball Writer/Author Phil Pepe Talks 1970’s, Leaving NY Daily … (Utica Observer Dispatch)
- New book covers rise of baseball when games lacked beer, Sundays (News Sentinel; The Summer of Beer and Whiskey)
- Baseball book about Billy Martin is revealing (Rerturntodeadcity.wordpress.com; The Last Yankee: Turbulent Life of Billy Martin)
- This year’s Indians beat ‘You Stink!’ teams (Mansfield News Journal; You Stink: Terrible Teams and Pathetic Players)
- Books about baseball (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Spring 2013 Baseball Book List (Baseball America; includes 501!)
- Casey Awards have honored baseball’s best books for 30 years (SABR.org)
- Rules of the game: Even aficionados need etiquette (USA Today, So You Think You Know Baseball?)
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