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Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin.com, is stepping down to take a job as a contributing editor of New York magazine. You can read his abdication announcement here. I use that term with some consideration, since he writes of himself using the “Royal We.” It is with heavy heart — yet mirthful disposition! — […]
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Funny how the editor of Deadspin.com has such disdain against traditional journalism except when he seems to benefit from it. Case in point, his article on the Chicago Cubs in the New York Times‘ “Play” supplement. On the other hand, is the newspaper just as “guilty” of providing the forum? I’m just askin’…
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Tick-tock. And not Tik-Tok. Wonder how soon a book will come out about the rule changes and how they impacted the 2023 season? Russell Carlton — who will release The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball in June, devoted a whole volume to The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking in 2018. […]
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As good as these baseball books are, they wouldn’t be my first choices for gift-giving — I lean more towards coffee-table volumes — but Will Leitch, writing for the Wall Street Journal, offers his considered opinion in this piece.
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Looking over the overlooked in baseball books stuff. In honor of Mothers’ Day, this piece by David Seideman in Forbes urges you to “Forgive Your Mom For Throwing Out Your Baseball Cards.” Is it my imagination or are Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner turning into Ralph Branca and Bobby Thomson? MLB.com described Mookie’s new memoir […]
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There are several excellent bits featuring of baseball cliches, not the least of which is this scene from Bull Durham: I previous wrote about The Final Four of Everything, focusing on Dan Okrent’s greatest Jewish baseball Players and Will Leitch’s greatest sports writers. Now it’s time for Sports Cliches, a contribution by Sports Illustrated‘s Steve […]
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A while back I posted about the “Chasing Dreams” exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, specifically Dan Okrent’s “bracket” of Jewish Major Leaguers. Since then, I’ve perused the book whence that came — The Final Four of Everything, co-edited by Mark Reityer and Richard Sandomir, sports media writer for The […]
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This goes back aways, but David Roth wrote about R.A. Dickey, mold-breaker for the concept of the cliched athlete, in the July 9 issue of New Yorker. More recently, Will Leitch offers these thoughts about the Mets in a “reasons to love New York” retrospective. Bruce Markusen at The Hardball Times posted this piece about […]
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Will Leitch published this piece on the reluctance of some sports pundits (as opposed to the hoi poloi of fandom) who are reluctant to embrace the new generation of baseball statistics. Of course this is the time of year when segments of the media that doesn’t normally cover baseball starts up as if they invented […]
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Gelf’s Varsity Letters, New York’s sports reading series, returns on Thursday, Oct. 4, with a night devoted to players who won’t make it to Cooperstown unless they buy a bus ticket. They get their due in the new digital collection of essays, The Hall of Nearly Great. And they’ll get their due at Varsity Letters, featuring editor Marc Normandin, who also […]
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The 2012 Hall of Fame inductions are just around the corner and this is the time of year the sportswriters and fans jump on their soapboxes to rail against the perceived injustices against those players who just fall outside the voters’ foul lines. Organizations such as The Baseball Reliquary thumb their collective noses by host […]
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A periodic attempt to catch up on recent items and links. ♦ I love this entry by SB Nation’s Grant Brisbee on the 17-inning game between the Red Sox and Orioles on May 6 because it’s so damn literary, comparing the sportswriter’s hyperbole to the epic storyteller. ♦ And this one brief from The Hardball […]
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Author interview: Will Leitch
July 3, 2010
Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog, conducted this audio interview with the author of Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball.
Tagged as: essays, St. Louis Cardinals, Will Leitch
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