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Fay Vincent

The bloom is off Rose

January 9, 2014

Danny Peary, author or coauthor of numerous baseball titles including Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero and Cult Baseball Players: The Greats, the Flakes, the Weird and the Wonderful among many others, was unable to add this comment in response to yesterday’s post, “All he is saying, is give Rose a chance,” about Kostya Kennedy’s commentary […]

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From the Advocate Weekly, serving the Berkshire and Bennington (MA) Counties, in which the former commissioner discusses his book and current events in the game.

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Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, gives Fay Vincent’s book the treatment in The New York Times. Upshot: Mahler considers the effort serviceable. Nothing especially glowing, nothing especially critical. I have often thought that having reviews coming from […]

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The Memphis Commercial Appeal offers this “capsule” review of Fay Vincent’s second volume of oral history on the players of the the 1950s and 1960s. Not quite The Glory of Their Times, but as baby boomers get older, these are the heroes of their youth. As can be expected of a book of this kind, […]

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