I am working on a “Bookshelf Conversation” podcast with Heather Quinlan, producer of a new documentary about the 1986 New York Mets. Quinlan is trying to raise $50,000 for her project via Kickstarter. (There are similar sites , but who has time to go through them all? Perhaps this will motivate you to investigate further.) […]
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In honor of the day, here’s a terribly brief and incomplete list of titles by and about moms and baseball: Minor League Mom: A Mother’s Journey Through the Red Sox Farm Teams, by Pamela Carey Watching the Game, by Judy Lynn Johnson Diamond Moms: A Mother’s Guide to Raising a Baseball Player, by Candace Conradi […]
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In the spirit of the holiday, I watched a baseball film called Milltown Pride. Produced by Bob Jones University, it is a Christian film with a message that I don’t feel precluded from understanding simply because I am a Jew, so here goes. There are many good points to the movie. The lessons — the […]
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Better than Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It doesn’t get much better than this: Lost and baseball. Of course, there was baseball on Lost. Whereas this must have been left on the cutting room floor:
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Last night marked my debut as a podcaster, sharing the stage with Daniel from C70 at Bat, a Cardinals-centric blog on BBA Baseball Talk, hosted on BlogTalkRadio. (FYI, the BBA — Baseball Bloggers Alliance — is a cooperative of folks who host blogs about the national pastime. Many are tram-centric; others, like mine, focus on […]
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The New York Times has recently published baseball material in non-sports sections. A review of the American Experience documentary on Robert Clemente ran on Monday, April 21. The program is available for viewing on the American Experience Web site. In the “Escape” section of the Friday, April 25 weekend Arts, this piece about minor league […]
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