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J.D. Salinger

* J.D. Salinger, Terence Mann, and Field of Dreams

January 29, 2010 · 2 comments

Thanks to a comment by Robert Loy, I had a “Homer Simpson” moment for totally forgetting about a crucial Salinger/baseball connection. Loy wrote, “What I want to know is why the ever-litigious Salinger didn’t sue Bill Kinsella over being included in ‘Shoeless Joe.’  And if he was okay with it why did they change it […]

Tagged as: Field of Dreams, J.D. Salinger, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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* Lest we forget: J.D. Salinger

January 29, 2010 · 2 comments

How often was his seminal novel of youth struggling for identity and acceptance mistaken for a baseball story? Maybe that’s because of former major league catcher — and later TV personality and broadcaster — Bob Uecker’s homonymic book. (Quick aside: In the mid-90s, I worked part time for one of those statistical companies that track […]

Tagged as: Bob Uecker, J.D. Salinger

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