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Don Zimmer

I get the Poynt

June 11, 2014

I am signed up for a bunch of daily Google alerts which inform me about various sports topics, including baseball stuff and Jewish-related items for my other blog. Sometimes I even read them. After the death last week of baseball lifer Don Zimmer, I received a GA for a story appearing on the very serious-yet-entertaining […]

Tagged as: Baseball Cards, Don Zimmer, Poynter

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Bits and pieces, June 9

June 9, 2014

Looking over the overlooked in baseball book (etc.) news… Wow, so much for the free exchange of ideas. Tried to access three items about baseball author appearances, book news, etc. but was blocked from each one because I’m not a paid subscriber. Bummer, man. Anyway… The Boston Globe ran this review of I Don’t Care […]

Tagged as: Babe Ruth, Bill Maden, Burleigh Grimes, Don Zimmer, Harry Caray, John Feinstein

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Lest we forget: Don Zimmer

June 6, 2014

The testimonies are coming in fast and heavy for Zimmer, who was proud of the fact that he never drew a paycheck outside of baseball for 66 years. Zimmer passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. He published two memoirs since 2001, but with the assistance of Bill Madden: Zim: A Baseball Life […]

Tagged as: Don Zimmer

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Literary birthday greetings: Zim, et al

January 17, 2011

Don “Popeye” Zimmer turns 80 today. If I had my time to live over again, I would want to be a baseball lifer. He published two memoirs within two years: Zim: A Baseball Life in 2002, and The Zen of Zim : Baseballs, Beanballs, and Bosses in 2004, after he’d left the Yankees and felt […]

Tagged as: Darrell Porter, Don Zimmer

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*Mr. Baseball, Esq.

August 25, 2008

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, Esquire magazine is running a series of — and on — “Page 75.” In the September issue we have a chance to recap several baseball stories that have run in the publication over the years including: “The Silent Season of a Hero,” by Gal Talese (July 1966) “What Do […]

Tagged as: Babe Ruth, baseball in Esquire magazine, Don Zimmer, Gay Talese, Reggie Jackson, Richard Ben Cramer, Roger Kahn, Scott Raab, Ted Williams, Willie Mays

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