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♦   From Sports Collectors Daily: “Mickey Mantle:  A Life In Memorabilia acts as a museum tour through Mantle’s life.  It includes items from Lane’s extensive and valuable collection as well as stories from Mantle’s 18-year career. “‘This book is as close as one can get to these artifacts without actually holding them,’ [author Steven] Lane […]

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In addition to the regular reasons — the signaling of the start of summer, the lazy evenings, the smell of the grass, etc. — I love the beginning of the baseball season because of the previews in the newspapers. These have often come in the form of supplements of substantial length and breadth and tailored, […]

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Bits and pieces, June 12

June 12, 2013

John  Rosengren was recently interviewed in Prime Time Radio to discuss his new bio on Hank Greenberg (audio). BlueJaysBanter, a “subsidiary” of Baseball Nation, posted this review of Jeff Blair’s Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball. David King will sign copies of his new book, Ross Youngs: In Search of a San Antonio Baseball […]

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A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball, by Joshua L. Berkowitz. Vantage Point, 2012. One of the knocks about youth sports over the last generation of so is that every kid comes away with a trophy, at least in the early stages. It’s all about building self-esteem, cooperating with others, good sportsmanship, etc. But as […]

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And not just because Charlie Sheen is associated with it. Why do the folks in Hollywood think it’s such a great idea to bring back a franchise several years — in some cases decades — later? Case in point: Sheen has expressed interest in  revisiting the Major League franchise, resurrecting Rickey “Wild Thing” Vaughn. He […]

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