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James Finn Garner

Like any tool, social media can be a force for good if used properly. Case in point, it’s allowed me to “meet” some really cool people, including Dan Epstein, whose book tour for Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76 brought him to the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse last night. I […]

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What the heck is toddlin’ anyway? The Chicago Tribune posted several items of literary baseball interest recently. ♦ Rob Manker on the 30th anniversary of the publication of W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe. One of the scarier points: many kids who first read the book now have kids of their own. ♦ James Finn Garner, who […]

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Since I wasn’t on the What’s on Second Internet radio show this week, I had to get my “me” fix in somehow. My ode to [now former] Mets pitcher Ollie Perez was included in Bardball.com’s 2010’s Greatest Hits!, a collection of baseball poetry. So it’s Frost, Longfellow, Kaplan. End of story. That’s all you need. […]

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