I don’t know about you, but being the curmudgeon that I am, I have trouble with the folks who jump on the baseball bandwagon once the regular season is over. This ain’t the NBA or NHL, bud, where everyone gets into the playoffs so you don’t have to pay attention until there are just a […]
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John Thorn,
Mark Kurlansky
The Jewish Review of Books (shouldn’t that be Review of Jewish Books?) ran this review of Mark Kurlansky’s recent biography, Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One. The piece begins with a reference to Mark Helprin’s short story, “Perfection,” which “re-imagined Bernard Malamud’s “Natural” as an adolescent Holocaust survivor whose otherworldly ability […]
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Mark Kurlansky
This originally appeared in the New Jersey Jewish News, March 31. It’s not quite one of the Four Questions, but Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell devoted an entire best-selling collection of his columns to explain Why Time Begins on Opening Day. For long-chilled fans, time begins again today, baseball’s earliest start ever. Several new books […]
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Lip Pike,
Mark Kurlansky,
Richard Michelson
A few items of special interest to the Jewish fans out there. Mark Kurlansky, author of the upcoming book Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, was the subject of this profile in the New York Jewish Week. From the article, by Eric Herschthal: In March, Yale University Press will publish his […]
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Mark Kurlansky,
Moe Berg
Man, I wish I had this type of article from Newsweek for other parts of daily life. Imagine: We eat it so you don’t have to. We go to work so you don’t have to. We argue with the wife so you don’t have to. We (fill in the blank) so you don’t have to. […]
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Mark Kurlansky,
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* Does this come in other colors?
April 28, 2010
Man, I wish I had this type of article from Newsweek for other parts of daily life. Imagine: We eat it so you don’t have to. We go to work so you don’t have to. We argue with the wife so you don’t have to. We (fill in the blank) so you don’t have to. […]
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