Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Willard Mullin,
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Yogi Berra
Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Dan Ewald,
Eephus Magazine,
Jeff Perlman,
Marty Appel,
Nine,
NY Yankees,
Sparky Anderson,
sports reporting
I was tooling around for new baseball book reviews and came across this from The Advocate, a website of “news, arts, & events from Berkshire & and Bennington Counties.” Ever craved a good book and just not been inspired by anything you see? Or felt annoyed that you bought a book that was merely so-so? […]
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My review of Dan Ewald’s new book, Sparky and Me: My Friendship with Sparky Anderson and the Lessons He Shared About Baseball and Life, appears on Bookreproter.com. It appears below for your convenience: A caveat before we begin. When I first started as a freelancer, I was asked to do an interview with Sparky Anderson […]
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The first celebrity interview I ever did was with Sparky Anderson. I got my freelance start doing book reviews (surprise, surprise), which led to author interviews, which led me to Anderson, who had just come out with They Call Me Sparky (1998). As one might expect in the presence of greatness, I was a bit […]
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John Smoltz discusses his new book, Starting and Closing: Perseverance, Faith, and One More Year. It’s kind of funny: Smoltz spent 20 out of his 21- years in the Majors with the Atlanta Braves, yet the headline for the St. Louis TV station refers to him as an ex-Cardinal. Sure, he was with the Cards […]
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As I mentioned in a previous entry, look for new bios about Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven to come out before the inductions (I wouldn’t be surprised if manuscripts are in prep already). I was wondering: out of all the personnel — players, executives, managers, etc. — enshrined to the Hall of Fame, how many […]
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Nov. 5 at Noon. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, […]
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That was quick, and perhaps for the best. “If it were done, when ’tis done, then twere well it were done quickly.”
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From ESPN.com: Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousands Oaks, Calif., home for complications resulting from dementia. Anderson, 76, was one of the first baseball personalities I ever interviewed. It occurred shortly after his book They Call Me Sparky came out in the late […]
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George Lee Anderson turns 74 today. The brains behind the World Champion Big Red Machine and Detroit Tigers is one of the all time great characters. I had the chance to speak with him in 1999 following the release of his book, for the scholarly baseball journal, NINE. The article is not available on-line, so […]
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