Notice how at this time of year “mainstream” (i.e., non-sports) writers and media in general come up with all sorts of “interesting” features about baseball? Here’s one about the “fine art” of scorekeeping now that the LA Dodgers are in the postseason.
W.P. Kisnella‘s Shoeless Joe is listed among “5 books that influenced lives in central Illinois.”
SI for Kids ran this Q&A: “Legendary Artist Todd McFarlane Talks Baseball and Toys”
ToledoCityPaper ran this piece on Jonathan Knight‘s The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
Here’s an article from the generic-titled Examiner.com about the link between baseball and music.
This is a stretch, but since people are always using the “baseball-as-a-metaphor-for-life” thing, here’s an article on “Why handing out awards for literature is not unlike baseball fever” from the Toronto Globe and Mail. Bonus: Here’s a piece from MedCityNews on “Applying Moneyball principles to health care.”
I don’t know how this slipped under the radar. Until recently I had never heard of Charles Fountain‘s The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
Finally, a profile on David Krell, author of Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture
is available on Amazon.com,
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