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Shameless self-promotion

October 29, 2016

If my mother were still alive, she’d probably have this framed and place it on a bookshelf.

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As the sports editor for a weekly Jewish publication, I always have my antenna out for anything that pertains to this niche topic. You might be surprised, but as someone so connected with Jews and sports, it’s amazing the number of times I come across reference to the scene from Airplane and the variations thereof […]

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Is an eternal question, and one that Bloomberg.com takes up in this piece, which prominently features Howard Megdal and his book, The Baseball Talmud.

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RIP, Mickey Rutner

November 8, 2007

Mickey Rutner, the oldest Jewish ex-major leaguer, passed away Oct. 17. Rutner, 87, was the real-life inspiration for Elliot Asinof’s baseball novel, Man On Spikes. During the past season, Rutner was still working part-time for the Red Rock Express. His job, he said in n interview conducted less than a month before he died, was […]

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