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S.L. Price

Bits and pieces, Jan. 23

January 23, 2014

Looking over the over-looked in baseball book (etc.) news… Now that the Yankees have once again spent a gagillion dollars restocking their pond, it’s time for another book examining how eeeeee-vil they are. And that’s the premise (and most of the title) of The Little Book of Yankees Evil by Brook Zelcer and Jelena Aleksich. The […]

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Larry MacPhail, Moe Berg, New York Yankees, Richard Ben Cramer, S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated

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This week (June 11) in Sports Illustrated

June 14, 2012

S.L. Price gives Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton the star treatment with an in-depth profile. Cross your fingers that no ill befalls the outfielder, as was the case for Matt Kemp a few weeks ago. Price was the guest on a recent Inside Sports Illustrated podcast to talk about the background of his story (the […]

Tagged as: Josh Hamilton, S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated

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* Now hear this: S.L. Price

July 24, 2009 · 3 comments

One of the saddest books your likely to read this year and, hopefully, for the foreseeable future, is S.L. Price’s Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America.

Tagged as: Mike Coolbaugh, S.L. Price

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* Q&A with S.L. Price

May 30, 2009

The New York Times “Bats” blog recently ran this Q&A with the author of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America (Ecco), which is the heartbreaking story of the on-field death of Mike Coolbaugh, the first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers who was hit by a foul line drive. […]

Tagged as: Mike Coolbaugh, S.L. Price

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* New book pays tribute to Mike Coolbaugh, baseball "lifers"

May 12, 2009

Our friend Jonathan Mayo contributed this review/author profile of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America, as did our other friend, Stan Hochman of the Philadelphia Daily News. Have you ever thought about the veteran minor league player, the one who has no longer has a realistic chance of making […]

Tagged as: Jonathan Mayo, Mike Coolbaugh, S.L. Price

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Book to tell the story of coach killed by line drive

January 3, 2008

According to The Media Mob column in the Jan. 2 edition of The New York Observer, SI writer S.L Price has signed a deal with Ecco, a Harper Collins imprint, to write the story of Mike Coolbaugh, a coach in the Colorado Rockies’ minor league system who was killed by a line drive while on […]

Tagged as: Ecco, Mike Coolbaugh, S.L. Price

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