You just need a big bookshelf. The Los Angeles Dodgers are celebrating their 50th anniversary in their eponymous stadium so to mark the occasion they’ll be giving out bobblehead dolls throughout the season. According to Tom Hoffarth on his blog, the schedule falls out thus: Don Drysdale and Maury Wills: Saturday, April 28 vs. […]
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The birthday boys include 10-time All-Star Steve Garvey, Hall of Fame pitcher Steve Carlton, and long (long) time manager Connie Mack. Garvey has a number of books by and about him, including My Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer (Scribner, 2008); Garvey (Crown, 1986); and The Secret Life of Cyndy […]
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Author of My Bat Boy Days, from Tampa Bay Online. Upshot: “It’s an idyllic little baseball book, 149 pages of pure Eisenhower- Kennedy era nostalgia.”
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Steve Garvey is making the rounds with his new book My Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer (Scribner). From Jackie Robinson, he learned about passion; from Gil Hodges, dignity He learned about faith from Sandy Koufax. “I’m Catholic but anyone who knew about Sandy his connection to his religion would […]
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