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Fred Merkle

To steal a line from a regular segment of Pardon the Interruption. Baseball Nation reminds us (okay, reminded me) that today is the 105th anniversary of Merkle’s Boner. Hopefully, this is drumming up some renewed interest in Mike Cameron’s empathetic biography, Public Bonehead, Private Hero: The Real Legacy of Baseball’s Fred Merkle, which is included […]

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Bits and pieces, Aug. 9

August 9, 2013

Author appearance: David King, author of Ross Youngs: In Search of a San Antonio Baseball Legend (TX) (Sports History), will sign copies of his book tomorrow (Aug. 10) from 2-4 p.m. Saturday at Barnes and Noble at The Shops at La Cantera, San Antonio. The book traces the career of the Hall of Famer, who […]

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By Christy Mathewson, 1912 A “pinch” is a tight spot, when one is expected to suck it up and give it that extra 10 percent; Mathewson had to do that a time or two in an era when starting pitchers were expected to go the distance. Hard to believe that Mathewson, one of the original […]

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Literary birthday greetings

December 21, 2010

Trying to catch up here: December 20 noted the birthdates of Fred Merkle (1888), Gabby Hartnett (1900; Gabby Hartnett: The Life and Times of the Cubs’ Greatest Catcher) and David Wright (1982; Mets Pride: For the Love of Mookie, Mike, and David Wright). Andy Van Slyke turns the big 5-oh today. Odd that his name […]

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More on Merkle

June 24, 2010

Apropos to my conversation with Mike Cameron, author of Private Bonehead, Public Hero: The Real Legacy of Fred Merkle, here are a few videos mentioned in his book, as well as bonus featuring a much younger Keith Olberman.

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Part II, Again, sorry for the mistake in the publisher’s name. Again, the correct name is Sporting Chance Press. http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Pod2BCameron062310.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Fans have been talking incessantly about the Cubs’ failure to win a World Championship in the last 100 years. What often goes overlooked is how they got to that one. If it weren’t for the infamous baserunning blunder by a New York Giants rookie (actually playing in his second season), the Cubs’ futility record would […]

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Cubs fans sure hope so. It’s been 100 years since they last one the Series, and, in the words of the late Steve Goodman’s “A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request” “…the year the Cubs last won a national league pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan” So it’s with great anticipation that […]

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