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Bookshelf Reviews via Bookreporter.com

May 14, 2021

My annual spring “review roundup” is on Bookreporter.com. This years titles include GATHERING CROWDS: Catching Baseball Fever in the New Era of Free Agency, by Paul Hensler THE RESHAPING OF AMERICA’S GAME: Major League Baseball After the Players’ Strike and AMERICA’S GAME IN THE WILD-CARD ERA: From Strike to Pandemic, both by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte THE […]

Tagged as: business of baseball, Cool Papa Bell, free agency, Negro Leagues

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Baseball Bookshelf almanac, March 7

March 7, 2013

Lest we forget: 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, Negro League outfielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1903) Cool Papa Bell (Baseball Hall of Famers of the Negro Leagues), by Shaun McCormack, Rosen Publishing Group, 2002. On this date: 1919 – Christy Mathewson, back from the World War I, rejoins the New York Giants as pitching coach […]

Tagged as: Christy Mathewson, Cool Papa Bell, Hack Wilson, John McGraw

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