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My latest review on Luke Epplin’s Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball appears on Bookreporter.com. Look for an interview with the author in the near future.

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Not going to go into a whole long intro. Seems redundant since it’s already in the video. But here’s the review I posted a while back about The Batter’s Box: A Novel of Baseball, War, and Love, by our guest, Andy Kutler.  

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Been a bit remiss in my own Bookshelf Conversations lately. But always happy to pass along what I’ve come across. Jonathan Hock’s new documentary Fastball recently hit the screens. I had the opportunity to watch a screener. Fascinating stuff. There’s a “Zelig moment” with Justin Verlander “visiting” Bob Feller during his famous “motorcycle showdown.” That […]

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The journalism world lost another icon with the passing of Mike Wallace, the veteran CBS newsman known to more recent viewers as one of the original members of the 60 Minutes team. But Wallace, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 93, was also a straight news reporter and anchor, as well as, […]

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Intro: As previously stated, the recent election of Robert Alomar and Bert Blyleven got me to thinking: how many Hall of Famers have had books written about them or penned their own stories. Here are the results. Again, this is not an all-inclusive list; almost all juvenile titles have been omitted. Red Faber (Inducted 1962) […]

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I was looking for a computer disc to my digital tape recorder this morning. I recently got a new computer and was unable to find the software that would allow me to put up the audio interviews and update the podcasts when I came across a review I did on Bob Feller: Ace of the […]

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Lest we forget: Bob Feller

December 16, 2010

The pride of The Greatest Generation died yesterday at the age of 92. Feller was one of the bona fide star athletes who served with distinction in World War II, sacrificing prime seasons away from the game when they might have been able to find ways around the draft; Feller could easily have claimed status […]

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Bob Feller, one of the fastest pitchers in Major League history, turns 92 today. Feller was one of those “Greatest Americans” who served in combat in World War II (as opposed to ballplayers who continued to play, albeit within the confines of military service). He lost more than three prime years. Several sabermetricians have posited […]

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In addition to my mini-review on Timothy Gay’s latest baseball title in the baseball , here is a sampling of others: Steve Penn, Kansas City Star: “There’s nothing like a good baseball story. And the era of barnstorming, when black players competed against white players despite the color ban, is full of good baseball stories.” […]

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The Canton (OH) Repository ran this piece on Bob Feller and his eponymous Bob Feller’s Little Blue Book of Baseball Wisdom (not to be confused with his Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom; what’s the next color in the series? I say red because he frequently expresses anger over the current state of the game).

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Rapid Robert turned 90 on Nov. 3. Feller was one of those players from “the greatest generation” — including Ted Williams, Warren Spahn, Bob Buhl, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio and many others — who lost precious years to the service of their country. Yes, some, like Feller and Williams, were on the front lines while […]

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From Feller to Clemens, the ageless newsman has bridged the generations of great pitchers. This segment appeared on Wallace’s interview program, originally broadcast on CBS August 4, 1957. The observant viewer will note the (now) hilarious (and anachronistic) introduction at the top of the program: “I’m Mike Wallace. The cigarette is Phillip Morris.” Courtesy of […]

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