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From our friend Greg Spira comes this link to LibraryJournal.com’s annual baseball feature. Among the usual share of biographies and memoirs, histories, and social commentaries are such themes as: Yet another biography about Yogi Berra, this one by homonymic author Allen Barra, and one on Walter O’Malley by Michael D’Antonio Ira Berkow’s bio of Lou […]

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* Just finished reading…

September 17, 2008

Herewith a new “feature”: books that I’ve recently finished, but haven’t gotten around to reviewing, along with a mini-mini-critique. The Brooklyn Nine Yankees World Series Memories

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For some, it’s Christmas catalogs. For others, it’s gardening. For me, it’s book catalgs from publishing houses. The Fall/Winter ’08 issue from University of Nebraska just arrived and, past being prelude, there are some interesting baseball titles sprinkled throughout. Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Change Japanese Baseball, by Robert K. Fitts: In an odd switch, […]

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Bits and Pieces

March 11, 2008

From Umpbump.com, a Letterman-like list of alternate uses for the weighty 2008 edition of Baseball Prospectus. From a December entry on HardballTimes.com, an interview with the prolific John Thorn. Mary Ann Childers, medical editor for the CBS affiliate in Chicago, on Your Brain on Cubs in which she “takes a look at a new book […]

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Bits and Pieces

December 12, 2007

Trying to clean up a lot of backlog here: *** From the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, this review of Dana Brands’ Mets Fan. *** Charles C. Alexander, author of biographies on Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, as well as a treatise on baseball during the Depression, recently released his studious account on Tris Speaker. […]

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