Throwback Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 (aka, massive links dump)

January 28, 2016

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?)

On the one hand, I’m happy to report that I’m catching up/running out of these old links. On the other hand, it’s been cool reminiscing.

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. Note: Sometimes individual sites remove the content or simply cease their existence, so Pocket isn’t 100 percent foolproof.

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♦ Highlights of a Lost & Rare baseball documentary from 1939:

♦ A clip from the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. Talking heads in this in includes the late sportswriter Maury Allen, actor/director Ron Howard, and the late Yogi Berra.

♦ The Atlantic ran this review of Chad Harbach’s 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. Those of you who have been following the Bookshelf for awhile (thanks, by the way) know my feelings on the subject. This piece from the DailyKos is more about the backstory and reception of the book rather than the quality of the novel itself.

https://i2.wp.com/www.bobstaake.com/willardmullin/images/mullin_ani.gif?resize=135%2C137♦ Artist/illustrator (and what’s the technical difference here?) Bob Staake hosts this tribute site to the legendary Willard Mullin, “the dean of sports  cartooning.”

♦ This obviously was published before Johan Santana’s gem.

♦ The Atlantic conducted this Q&A with Frank Deford following the publication of his memoir, Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter.

♦  DNAIndia (!) posted this review of John Grisham’s baseball novel Calico Joe. Kind of surprised not to see any movie in development for this one. Whoops, spoke too soon.

♦ Bailey’s Baseball Book Reviews did one for Harvey Araton’s Driving Mr. Yogi.

♦ The Hot Corner portion of SBNation posted this vintage clip of Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown in action.

♦ My Bookreporter.com review of Don Ewald’s Spark and Me (and my Conversation with the author).

 

 

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