Was listening to Extra Hot Great, one of my favorite podcasts ever, and heard a mention of this under “Winners of the Week”: “Lou Gehrig Series From Lorne Michaels in the Works at Apple” From the Hollywood Reporter article: “The iPhone maker/streamer is teaming with Universal Television and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video to adapt author […]
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Lou Gehrig
Has it really been three weeks since the last one of these? My, my… Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying […]
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Boston Red Sox,
David Wright,
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New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Ted Williams,
Willie Mays
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Doc Gooden,
Jim Bouton,
Joe DiMaggio,
Lou Gehrig,
Moneyball,
New York Yankees,
Ted Williams,
Willie Mays,
Yogi Berra
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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New York Mets,
New York Yankees,
Roy Halladay,
Ted Williams,
Yogi Berra
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Jay Horwitz,
Jim Bouton,
Lou Gehrig,
New York Mets,
New Yortk Yankees,
Roy Halladay,
Washington Nationals,
Yogi Berra
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Rod Carew,
Roy Halladay,
Willie Mays,
Yogi Berra
Remember last time when I said I wasn’t going to make a whole, long intro because it was on the video and would be redundant? Nevermind. Now I’ve removed the intro from the video, preferring not to tell you what I’m going to tell you, telling you, and telling you what I wold you. You’re […]
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Lou Gehrig
Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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I’m am the poster child when it comes to falling down the rabbit hole. Whenever a book by a writer I especially respect refers to additional material, I will seek it out more often than not. While going through The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves, Keith […]
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Rawhide
Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season, by Dan Joseph (Sunbury Press, 2019) Perhaps it’s the morbid curiosity in me, looking for details about the tragic death of Lou Gehrig, which made Dan Joseph’s examination of the 1938 campaign hard to put down. For a […]
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Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, by Alan D. Gaff (Simon and Schuster, May 2020) Would there be so many books about Gehrig had he not died such a tragic death? Does the contraction of the disease that now bears his name make him any more or less a worthy subject than many of his contemporaries? […]
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Mickey and Roger? Yes. Derek and A-Rod. No. Lou and the Babe? Somewhere in-between. (And those are just Yankee teammates.) Teammates don’t have to be friends and you can understand how they might not be, especially if they’re both superstars. Tony Castro takes up this topic in his newest book, Gehrig and The Babe: The […]
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Lou Gehrig,
New York Yankees
I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m a […]
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Cincinnati Reds,
college baseball,
Joe Maddon,
Little League,
Lou Gehrig,
Michael Lewis,
Minnesota Twins,
minor leagues,
New York Yankees,
prospects,
Ron Guidry,
rookies
I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m a […]
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baseball rookies,
Chicago Cubs,
college baseball,
Joe Maddon,
Little League,
Lou Gehrig,
Michael Lewis,
minor leagues,
New York Yankees,
prospects,
rookies
I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m a […]
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college baseball,
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Little League,
Lou Gehrig,
Michael Lewis,
minor leagues,
New York Yankees,
prospects,
rookies
I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m a […]
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baseball analysis,
baseball prospects,
baseball rookies,
Chicago Cubs,
college baseball,
Joe Maddon,
Little League,
Lou Gehrig,
Michael Lewis,
minor leagues,
New York Yankees,
prospects,
rookies
I always get a kick out of finding reviews of baseball books in unlikely places. In this case, it’s actually kind of a natural, since this title cross multiple genres. Even though it touts itself as “The Essential Guide to Movies of the ’60s and ’70s,” CinemaRetro offers this piece on Richard Sandomir’s The Pride […]
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Richard Sandomir
I was at work the other day and the conversation turned to movies. I talked about a recent bio-pic and one of my younger colleagues did not know what that was. I was kind of surprised but then realized, a) not everyone is a movie buff; b) a movie buff might not like bio-pics; c) […]
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Pete Grey,
Roy Campanella,
Satchel Paige,
Ty Cobb