Submitted for your interest, this feature by Jacob Kamaras at JNS.org on John Klima’slatest baseball book, The Game Must Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII. * * * Baseball fans might most vividly remember Hank Greenberg for his chase of Babe Ruth’s single-season […]
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Rather than lay it all out there, I thought I would divvy this up into smaller, more manageable bites, so here’s Part 2. * denotes items of particular interest (to me, at any rate). History One of my bugaboos has long been titles such as The Nats and the Grays: How Baseball in the Nation’s […]
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Joe DiMaggio,
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The Baseball Reliquary — “an organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history” — might be seen by some as a “renegade” outfit. They buck the established order of things with their own Hall of Fame, aka, The Shrine of the Eternals. TBR just announced the […]
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Pete Gray
Willie Stargell, the heart and soul of the Pittsburgh Prates “family,” was born this date in 1940. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988 Willie Stargell: An Autobiography, by Stargell with Bird, 1984 Out of left field: Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates (A Prairie House book), Adelman, 1976 Lefty Grove was […]
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The one-armed outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, the poster boy for baseball during World War II, passed away in 2002. Although said to be something of a curmudgeon, he was turned lovable in A Winner Never Quits, a pretty poor made-for-TV movie featuring Keith Carradine as the ballplayer, Mare Winningham as the obligatory love […]
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