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Throwback Thursday, July 23, 2015: The “X” edition

July 23, 2015 · 2 comments

I was doing an on-line search for baseball book art to incorporate into a screen-saver slide show and came across an image that looked a bit odd and familiar. Sure enough, it was not an baseball cover but a faux cover included in one of a very entertaining series of entries by Jim Baker, a […]

Tagged as: baseball art, Jim Baker, SB Nation

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More on Trouble with the Curve

September 21, 2012

Friday is the traditional movie review day in the press (anyone remember when there were two release days? Movies used to come out on Fridays and Wednesdays). Here’s the NY Times‘ assessment, by A.O. Scott. Upshot: The trouble with baseball movies like “Trouble With the Curve” is that they tempt reviewers to reach for hackneyed […]

Tagged as: Clint Eastwood, Jackie Robinson, Rob Neyer, SB Nation

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Honoring him who honors the veterans

June 7, 2012

Rob Neyer at SB Nation posted this item about Gary Bedingfield, host of Baseball in Wartime and author of Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service. Awhile back I had a chance to e-chat with Bedingfield, a native of Great Britain, about his interest in paying tribute […]

Tagged as: Gary Bedingfield, Rob Neyer, SB Nation, World War II

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