Don’t know how this slipped by me: The Baseball Book Festival takes place tomorrow (Feb. 28), in Indianapolis. Authors participating in the event include: Doug Wilson (Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson, The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych, and the forthcoming Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk. Pete Cava (Amazing Tales from […]
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The Hall of Fame’s Summer Authors’ Series kicks off June 19 and continues throughout July and August. The program brings several noted writers to the Hall of Fame’s Bullpen Theater for special lectures as fans can hear first-hand how their stories became part of written history. These presentations allow visitors to learn the story behind […]
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Trying to catch up with the stuff I missed while at the SABR convention: The Henry Wiggen Blog published this review of Michael Shaara’s For Love of the Game, which became Kevin Costner’s third baseball movie. Publisher’s Weekly offer this announcement of an upcoming book on Don Larsen’s perfect game: Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World […]
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Asinof, author of the watershed book about the Black Sox scandal, died June 10. In this piece from BaseballLibrary.com, Gene Carney pays tribute to his friend and mentor. Carney is author of Burying the Black Sox, one of several volumes on the events surrounding the 1919 World Series and its aftermath.
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Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney authors of It Takes More Than Balls: The Savvy Girls’ Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball, will put in an appearance at an event for the Association for Women in Communications in September. So you have plenty of advance notice. TIME: 5:30 p.m. networking; 6:00-7:00 p.m. food, drink and program […]
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The annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research takes place in the organization’s “home town” of Cleveland, later this month. On Friday, June 27, from noon to 1 p.m., the Cleveland Public Library will cohost a Baseball Authors’ Roundtable with SABR in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, and it is free and open […]
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Mel Didier was one of the countless players who rounded out a team’s roster. Never a star, or even a regular player for the most part, he remained in the game on the sidelines, as a coach and scout, so he has a few stories to tell, which he does in Podnuh, Let Me Tell […]
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