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Jacques Barzun

Bits and pieces, Nov. 15

November 15, 2012

♦  Doug Glanville, author of The Game from Where I Stand: From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the Best Breakfast on the Road, an Inside View of a Ballplayer’s Life and a baseball analyst for ESPN, has launched a new endeavor: The Daddy Games, “Lessons and tidbits of wisdom gained from the sport of […]

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National Pastime Radio: More on Barzun

October 31, 2012

Loyal Bookshelf reader John Adams sent in this link to an NPR obituary for Jacques Barzun, which included audio from his 1994 interview on All Things Considered:

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Lest we forget: Jacques Barzun

October 28, 2012

The scholar who gave us perhaps the most quoted line about baseball, died yesterday at the age of 104. The odd thing is, I just came across this excerpt from an article by Prof. Gerald Early the other day.And I have been seeking out a copy of God’s Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love […]

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