Throwback Thursday (massive links dump, continued)

May 8, 2015

It’s still Thursday somewhere, right? Got sidetracked yesterday and this slipped my mind.

Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood that famous quote from Forrest Gump. If it’s a box of chocolate covered cherries, don’t you know exactly what you’re going to get?)

As a reminder,

I highly recommend Pocket as a way to hold onto links you come that you want to keep. Unlike bookmarks, Pocket keeps the entire page and makes it relative easy for you to find stuff you “pocketed.” I have keepers going back six years — more than 5,000 links — and I’ve decided it’s time to start cleaning house so here are some submitted for your amusement, perusal, and education. Some are not current, but in a sense, they’re timeless. They’re presented in reverse order (oldest first).

  • A brief review of the 2011  documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, from Jewcy
  • From Baseball Reflections, this review of Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League, by Neal Conan
  • From our old friend Tom Hoffarth, this Q&A with former MLBer Shawn Green, author of the memoir The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
  • This N+1 podcast features an interview with Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding, which received a huge amount of buzz from literary circles, possibly due to the fact that he received a humungous advance for his first novel. If you’ve been following my blog since that time, you know my feelings about the book. If not, here’s a reminder.
  • If you’re looking for old-tyme baseball, here’s a list of 36 full-text books from the late 19-th/early20th century available via Guttenberg.org.
  • Author James Bailey — then a writer for Baseball America — provided his list of the best baseball books of 2011.
  • Kind of surprised but happy to see Boston Radio still has this up: An interview with Glenn Stout, author of Fenway 1912, one of several books published to mark the occasion of the classic ballpark’s centennial
  • The Jerusalem Post posted this review of Rebecca Alpert’s book, Out of Left Field: Jews in Black Baseball
  • Grant Bisbee at SB Nation posted these 12-days-of-Christmas themed posts at the end of 2011.
  • There was a time when parodies based on a film about Adolph Hitler were very popular. The premise was always the same: Hitler ranting about some incongruous situation. Here are a few with a baseball theme include the Mets, Cardinal, Cubs, Dodgers, and Albert Pujols. Warning: some NSFW material in these.

 

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