Bits and pieces, Aug. 30

August 30, 2013

* Lindsey Berra, Yogi’s granddaughter, posted this piece on Allen Barra‘s Mays/Mantle bio on MLB.com.

* Speaking of Yogi, this hyper-local site in the Seattle area wants to recommend his book (co-authored with Dave Kaplan), When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It.

* The Thousand Oaks Library (Calif.) will feature Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding for its annual “One City One Book” event. The author will appear at the library on Nov. 2 “to discuss his book and life experiences as well as respond to readers’ questions.” The page from the library itself doesn’t offer much info, but it does offer the picture below with the caption “A typical baseball game.” I’m betting this was done by a person who isn’t much of a baseball fan. Just a feeling I get. I think a real fan wouldn’t be so casual. How does he or she know this is a “typical” game, given the visual information, which ain’t much?

* Let the arguments begin. Recently I posted about a piece in Esquire magazine by Dan Epstein on the best non-fiction baseball books. Now The Atlantic chimes in with this piece on “The Greatest Baseball Novel Ever Written.” No spoiler alert here; you’re gonna have to click on the link to see what it is, but I’m guessing a good portion of you may well disagree.

* Long-time SABR member Richard Chilton recently published The Groundbreakers!, a substantial collection (600+ pages) of “who did it first” trivia.

* The Asahi Shimbun ran this story about Koshien to Pyongyang no Ace, a new biography of a “local hero.” Given that title, I’m wondering if this page is translated oddly.

 

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