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♦ As you know, I normally do not include books written for kids on this blog, but in this case — The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game — I’ve made an exception because of the special “teaching moment” involved and the fact that, unlike a lot of other titles […]

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As mentioned in a previous post, Arnold Hano wrote one of the must-read books for any serious student of the national pastime. A Day in the Bleachers was the first, and in many ways the best, of the single-game analyses genre. His deconstruction of the first game of the 1954 World Series between the New […]

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Unless, of course, your toddler tosses it back. From Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog: Since being featured on the front page of Yahoo! on Wednesday afternoon, the Big League Stew post containing the highlight has been one of the most clicked in this blog’s history and I don’t think it’s hard to figure […]

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* "Where are all the kids?"

September 4, 2008

Tom Stanton, author of several Tigers-centric titles, contributed this piece to the New York Daily News about why baseball is losing its young, middle-class fan base. Upshot: For most of my life, on a trip to the ballpark on any given day, you might find yourself sitting between a corporate executive and a line worker, […]

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by David Green. 2008, Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ST&C have published a series of these books for several teams already, including the Yankees and Red Sox. The binding/dust jacket is reminiscent of an old photo album and that’s exactly the feeling the reader will get. In fact, like that old keepsake, these little books are […]

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With all the falderol about steroids, congressional hearings, etc., it’s easy to forget the impact this all will have on future generations of fans. Of course, according to the late Tug McGraw’s frozen snowball theory “Astronomers have estimated that in something like 50 million years, our sun will burn out and then the Earth will […]

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Giving the fans the finger

January 25, 2008

Will Leitch, editor of Deadspin.com, recently published God Save The Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (and How We Can Get It Back). King Kaufman (I’d like to see his birth certificate), highlights the verbosely-titled book in his […]

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