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Baseball Bookshelf almanac, Jan. 31

January 31, 2013 · 0 comments

Literary birthday greetings: 1919 – Jackie Robinson, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer Since I addressed this last year — and there are soooo many books about Robinson — I just thought I’d link to that entry for everyone’s convenience. 1931 – Hank Aguirre, pitcher; All-Star 1931 – Ernie Banks, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer 1947 [...]

Tagged as: Barry Bonds, Ernie Banks, Jackie Robinson, Joshua Prager, New York Giants, Nolan Ryan, Ralph Branca

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Literary birthday greetings: Early Wynn and…

January 6, 2011 · 0 comments

Hall of Famer Early Wynn was born this date in 1920. He hung around for 23 Years, missing the whole 1945 season for military service. I was under the impression that he retired right after he won his coveted 300th game, but I was in error. He actually appeared in another15 games after his July [...]

Tagged as: Chicago White Sox, Early Wynn, Ralph Branca

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* Consider this

June 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Bloomberg.com includes two baseball titles in this piece on sports books: S.L. Price’s Heart of the Game about Mike Coolbaugh’s on-field death, and Miracle Ball by Brian Biegel, which looks at the search for “the shot heard ’round the world.”

Tagged as: Bobby Thomson, Mike Coolbaugh, Ralph Branca

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* Non-topic of the day? Maybe, maybe not.

May 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Would it seem silly to you to devote an entire book that showed a particular baseball was not the one hit by Bobby Thomson in the 1951 playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. That how I felt when I read this piece in The New Daily News on Miracle Ball: My Search for the Shot [...]

Tagged as: 1951 Plaoyoffs, Bobby Thomson, Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, Ralph Branca

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