The author of The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia spent a few moments with the Bookshelf to discuss some of his favorite pop-culturish baseball people, places, and things. Hear it here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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Or in this case The Baseball Uncyclopedia: A Highly Opinionated, Myth-Busting Guide to the Great American Game — one of my favorite irreverent books about the game — gets a mini-review from Mark’s Epehemera, a card collecting blog.
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The School Library Journal Web site reports: Just in time for baseball season, the Library of Congress (LOC) has assembled a Web clearinghouse devoted to America’s pastime. The simply named “Historic Baseball Resources” features multimedia offerings from the library’s vast trove, including rare images of early games and the original sheet music to “Take Me [...]
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, by Saul Wisnia.
, by Glenn Stout
, by Steven Travers.
by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
, by Michael Bishop and 
by Robert Coover
* Bookshelf Review: The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia
May 6, 2010 · 1 comment
Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without, by Robert Schnakenberg. Triumph, 2010. Schnakenberg takes his love for pop culture (anti-culture?) and puts a national pastime spin on it in this little faux-reference volume. The connection between PC and baseball has been handled in more serious veins by Jonathan Fraser Light [...]
Tagged as: baseball humor, baseball reference, Baseball Trivia
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