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James Hirsch

Readers, take “note”

December 8, 2010

Three baseball entries are among the non-fiction titles on The New York Times as “100 Notable Books of 2010.” THE LAST BOY: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood. By Jane Leavy. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Many biographies of Mantle have been written, but Leavy connects the dots in new and disturbing ways. THE LAST HERO: […]

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TWIBB: Nov. 12, 2010

November 12, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, […]

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From the Baseball Hall of Fame: The story of one of baseball’s greatest heroes has come to print, and the author is coming to Cooperstown. New York Times best-selling author James S. Hirsch will discuss his new book Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend on Friday, July 30, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame […]

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Bill Gallo, the veteran sports cartoonist for the New York Daily News, published this review/personal remembrance of Mays as per the Hircsh bio. I used to collect his work — along with another DN cartoonist name of Bill(?) Stark — in one of my many scrapbooks. In 1969, as the Mets were marching towards the […]

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* Review: Willie Mays

March 1, 2010

The Sunday Times Book Review leads off with a full page about James Hirsch’s bio (which leads some to ask, why is it necessary to review the same book twice, given the limited review space). The review, by long time New York writer Pete Hamill, is quite glowing in its praise, although he doesn’t actually […]

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Hirsch, author of the critically-acclaimed (and not just by me) bio of Willie Mays, talks a good game. He was very generous with his time this week in discussing his work and process (as the extended length of this interview indicates), going so far as to read a portion from his chapter, “The Catch,” which […]

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* Whole lot of Hirsch goin' on

February 12, 2010

Look for Jame Hirsch, author of the new Mays biography, to be making the media rounds in the weeks ahead (including an interview with the Bookshelf). It’s still a bit early in the reviewing process, but here is a sampling of links to get you started: An interview on WEEI sports radio, New England A […]

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