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Albeit Amazon TV. I wrote about this more than a year ago but there’s new information. According to several sources, they’re trying once more to bring the acclaimed film to the small screen. From The Hollywood Reporter (with my emphasis in bold): The Good Place actress D’Arcy Carden (left in photo below) is in talks […]
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There’s a semi-regular feature on NPR’s Sound Check that examines songs and asks the question, “That was a hit?” That came to my mind when was asked to like the Facebook page for Back in the Game, a new series coming to ABC. Here’s the premise, from the show’s web page: Terry Gannon Jr. (Maggie […]
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Funny how stream of consciousness works. I was tooling around on the web and came across a paper by Chad Sabadie on “America’s Presstime: How Images Of Baseball Reporters Have Shaped the Prception of Our National Sport and The Profession Of Journalism.” Quite interesting, if not wholly accurate. Any baseball reader or movie-goer knows about […]
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Eastbound & Down, an new comedy series from HBO, tells the sad tale of Kenny Powers, a dynamic relief pitcher (originally on the Atlanta Braves) who loses his fastball but never his attitude: rude, crude, and lewd. When the pros no longer have any use for him, he returns to his home town where he […]
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It may surprise you to hear that I hate the post-season. Let me rephrase. I hate the post-season when the non-baseball “fans” pop out of the woodwork to get involved. Where were they in April and May? I especially despise those celebrities whose faces are shown in every other shot (“Oh, and there’s Sarah Jessica […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
