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Happy (?) Anniversary

April 1, 2015

Author John Rosengren sent this out to the members of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America. I’m guessing he’d have no problem of me presenting it to you loyal readers as well. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous brawl between Juan Marichal and John Roseboro.  You no doubt have seen the […]

Tagged as: baseball fights, John Roseboro, John Rosengren, Juan Marichal, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants

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The slate is in for Casey Award finalists

November 4, 2014

From the editors of Spitball Magazine, here are the finalists for the 2014 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year: Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson, by Doug Wilson The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title that Became a National Obsession, by Rick Huhn The Fight of […]

Tagged as: Branch Rickey, Brooks Robinson, Chicago Cubs, Jackie Robinson, John Roseboro, Johnny Evers, Juan Maricahl, Nap Lajoie, Nolan Ryan, Pete Rose, Roy Campanella, Ty Cobb, Walter O'Malley, Willie Mays, Wrigley Field

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Three wise men: Rosengren, Kennedy, Keri

March 26, 2014 · 1 comment

Seems most of the buzz lately is about Kostya Kennedy’s Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, John Rosengrens’s Marichal-Roseboro book, The Fight of Their Lives, and Jonah Keri’s Up, Up, and Away, the new history about  the Montreal Expos. Rosengren From Mike Bauman/MLB.com: “Book tells of redemption for Marichal, Roseboro“ This one from Allen Barra will […]

Tagged as: John Roseboro, John Rosengren, Jonah Keri, Juan Marichal, Kostya Kennedy, Montreal Expos, Pete Rose

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Review roundup, March 11

March 11, 2014 · 1 comment

They’re starting to come in hot and heavy. Witness: John Rosengren, author of the The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball’s Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption, was arecent guest on WBUR’s Only a Game. OAG‘s host, Bill Littlefield included it in a trio of books […]

Tagged as: James Bailey, John Feinstein, John Roseboro, John Rosengren, Juan Marichal, Kostya Kennedy, minor leagues, Pete Rose

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Baseball book ‘prospects’

February 27, 2014

This it the time of year when the baseball media offer their considered opinions on their favorite prospects. Sometimes they’re spot on, other times, not so much. So I thought, why not apply this to the upcoming “rookie crop” of baseball books? That is, titles that are making their debuts in 2014 — no reprints/reissues […]

Tagged as: Al Clark, Alex Rodriguez, Andrew Zimbalist, Atlanta Braves, Babe Ruth, Ben Zobrist, Boston Red Sox, Branch Rickey, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Continental League, Dirk Hayhurst, Doug Harvey, Fantasy baseball, George F. Will, House of David, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, John Roseboro, Juan Marichal John Rosengren, Los Angeles Dodgers, Marilyn Monroe, Minnesota Twins, minor leagues, Montreal Expos, Mookie Wilson, Nap Lajoie, Negro Leagues, New York Mets, Nolan Ryan, PED, Pete Rose, Roger Kahn, Roy Campanella, sabermetrics, steroids, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, umpires, Walter O'Malley, Willie Mays, Wrigley Field

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Literary (and more) birthday greetings

May 13, 2011

John Roseboro, an four-time All-Star catcher for the Dodgers, Twins, and Senators who was gained an extra degree of fame for putting his head in the way of Juan Marichal’s bat during an argument, was born this day in 1933 (died 2002). Roseboro published his memoirs, Glory Days with the Dodgers, and Other Days with […]

Tagged as: Barry Zito, Bobby Valentine, John Roseboro, Leon Wagner

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