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As the sports editor for a weekly Jewish publication, I always have my antenna out for anything that pertains to this niche topic. You might be surprised, but as someone so connected with Jews and sports, it’s amazing the number of times I come across reference to the scene from Airplane and the variations thereof […]

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by Clay Snellgrove. Loaded Press, 2007. Those familiar with this blog know I’m not big on reviewing fiction. Most of the new stuff I’ve found disappointing but that’s just one man’s opinion. So it’s nice to come across a thoughtful and realistic story such as the one Clay Snellgrove tells in his simply-titled novel, The […]

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What does this say about society when a couple of guys wishing to raise $6,000 to fund their graphic novel about baseball players and flesh-eating monsters get more than 1,100 folks to pledge more than $38K…with 25 days left to go!  

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Don’t know how long this will last, but if you have a Kindle, I suggest you get over to Amazon and download Richard Doster’s novel Safe at Home for free ASAP. The story — about a young African-American trying to succeed on a minor league team in the deep South in the 1950s — is […]

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CBS conducted an interview with Philip Roth on the publication of his new novel, Nemesis. One of the questions posed to the author the The Great American Novel: “When you lived here, and you were growing up,” asked Braver, “did you want to be famous? Did you want to be somebody whose name everybody knew?” […]

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Bits and Pieces

October 2, 2010

As the days dwindle down to a precious few, here’s an attempt at a major catch-up: I met Rob Fitts at the SABR convention in Washington, DC, last year. His specialty is Japanese baseball. Here’s his site on baseball cards. The NY Times‘ Alan Schwarz covered the convention’s always-entertaining trivia contest. You know the theoretical […]

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by Kurt Willinger  (Sabre Press, 1995) Moe Berg is certainly one of the most interesting characters to ever done baseball flannels. A mediocre player — an apocryphal story quotes Casey Stengel saying “He can speak seven languages but can’t hit in any of them — Berg played for five teams over 15 seasons. Had he […]

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From Perth to Sacramento, by Nicholas R.W. Henning (Booksurge.com, 2009) Regular readers of the Bookshelf know I rarely offer my own reviews of baseball fiction. I find it too subjective and my education and skills in critiquing the genre too inferior. But once in awhile a book will find its way here that bears some […]

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From the NovelJourney blog, this Q&A with the author of Safe at Home, a story about “a sportswriter, a black baseball player, and the cast of characters that surrounds them when the minor league color line is broken in a small Southern town.” You can learn more about the book from the author’s Web site.

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From the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

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A selection of four kids’ books, including: Smithsonian Baseball Treasures, by Stephen Wong Swinging for the Fences: Hank Aaron and Me, by Mike Leonetti Six Innings, by James Preller Barnstormers, Game 3, by Phil Bildner

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