Dugout Central conducted this interview with Reynolds, author of ’78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City
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June 29, 2009 · 0 comments
Dugout Central conducted this interview with Reynolds, author of ’78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City
Tagged as: Bill Reynolds, Boston Red Sox
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May 21, 2009 · 0 comments
The author of ’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City, gets the treament from the good folks at HuggingHaroldReynolds (any relation?).
Tagged as: Bill Reynolds, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees
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May 11, 2009 · 0 comments
From TheHardBallTimes, this review of Bill Reynolds’’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City. Upshot: Despite many faults, HBT reviewer Chris Jaffe concludes, “I enjoyed this book far more than I expected to because of its considerable strengths. Though it couldn’t quite fuse its elements, Reynolds didn’t try to force fusion [...]
Tagged as: Bill Reynolds, Boston Red Sox
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball, by Saul Wisnia.
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout
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What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Storyby Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
Grade: A. Still a bit "innocent," but amazingly ahead of its time in deal with its subject matter of mental illness.
What's next:
With a lull in the release of new baseball titles, a re-read of Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.: A Novel
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