Greg Spira passed along this link to an NJ.com review of five New York-centric books, including (with a “symbolic” thumbs up-thumbs down): 1961: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase, by Phil Pepe (-) Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly, by Mike Shalin (-) Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The […]
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Congratulations to Nathan Cordery of Stoney Creek, Ontario, this month’s winner of the Bookshelf Facebook prize: John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. The next book prize will be Neil Lanctot’s Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella. In addition, as a special “season opener” bonus, another […]
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NPR has had several baseball segments in recent days on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, The Leonard Lopate Show, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Only a Game. Leading off (this isn’t in chronological order) is comedian Jessi Klein who was featured in WWDTM‘s “Not My Job” portion of the program. SAGAL: Well, Jessi Klein, we’re […]
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Only a Game recently featured two author reviews for books on minorities in baseball. Neil Lanctot, author of Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella, was featured on the March 12 episode (listen here). Rob Ruck, author of Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game was on the March 5 program […]
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, March 18, at 4 p.m. Title Rank General Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn 1 The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, by Jonah Keri […]
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How great must it be for John Thorn these days. Not only is his new book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, getting good reviews early on, but he was recently appointed Major League baseball’s official historian. Here are just a few of the items that have hit […]
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It’s Monday and that means I’ll be making my weekly appearance on the What’s On Second Internet radio program on Blogtalkradio.com. The show begins at 9 p.m. EST, and I’m usually on about 9:40. Tonight’s guest will be John Thorn, the newly-appointed official historian of Major League Baseball. Thorn, a prolific writer, has just released […]
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Congratulations to Mark Stratton of Columbia, MO, winner of the February Facebook fan drawing of Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. The March prize will be Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn, recently appointed as official baseball historian by Major League Baseball. Tell your friends!
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John Thorn, who today was named as Major League Baseball’s official historian, will be one of several authors presenting at the March 5 meeting of SABR’s Casey Stengel Chapter. The day-long event — which is open to the public — will be held at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the NY Public Library (Fifth Avenue and […]
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Mike Silva offers some easy listening about baseball, including an interview with Ira Berkow on his latest book, Summers in the Bronx: Attila the Hun and Other Yankee Stories; author and historian John Thorn; and Peter Golenbock on Billy Martin.
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