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Andrew Zimbalist

Baseball Bookshelf almanac, Feb. 11

February 11, 2013 · 0 comments

Lest we forget: 1950 – Kiki Cuyler, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1898) Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler: A Baseball Biography, by Ronald Waldo, McFarland 2012. 2011 – Chuck Tanner, outfielder, manager (b. 1928) Chuck Tanner’s baseball playbook, by Tanner with Jim Enright, Rutledge/Mayflower Book, 1981 Also on this date: 1985 – Minnesota Twins first baseman [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, Chuck Tanner, Kent Hrbek, Kiki Cuyler, Robin Yount

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Bits and Pieces, March 30

March 30, 2012 · 0 comments

Baseball Reflections posted this review of High Fives, Pennant Drives, and Fernandomania: A Fan’s History of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Glory Years (1977-1981), by Paul Haddad. Just in time for Opening Day in Japan (which just passed. Sorry for the late post): baseball terms in Japanese! Another late post: GQ ran this profile on broadcasting [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, Doug Glanville, Los Angeles Dodgers, Vin Scully

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* RK Review: In the Best Interests of Baseball?

July 28, 2009 · 0 comments

The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig, by Andrew Zimbalist (John Wiley and Sons, 2007) Allan H. “Bud” Selig has nominally been in charge of the national pastime longer than any commissioner since Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Needless to say, the game has expanded beyond what the sixteen original owners could ever have imagined. Such success [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, Bud Selig, Commissioners

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* RK Review: In the Best Interests of the Game?

July 4, 2009 · 0 comments

The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig By Andrew Zimbalist (Wiley, 2007) The review appears in the current edition of SABR’s Baseball Research Journal.

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, Bud Selig

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* A tribute (?) to Yankee Stadium

July 18, 2008 · 0 comments

In the Times’ latest on-line edition of Play, this piece about the old/new ballparks in the Bronx. Economist Andrew Zimbalist, author of Baseball and Billions, among other titles, recently discussed the same topic on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show, which you can hear here: Amazon Report on Andrew Zimbalist: The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Zimbalist, Yankee Stadium

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