Besides my own book, there are some titles I’m really looking forward to this season. Among them: Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat was the Best Job on the Paper by Dennis D’Agostino The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age by Robert Weintraub Mickey [...]
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Baseball during World War II,
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Filip Bondy,
Ira Berkow,
Mickey Mantle,
Mike Piazza,
New York Mets,
Willard Mullin,
Willie Mays
Sheesh, what’s going to be left? The New York Times sports media writer Richard Sandomir wrote this story about sports cartoonists joining the endangered species list last week. In my attic I have pages torn from the NY Daily News from 1969, when Bruce Stark drew a series of Mets, including Gil Hodges, Tom Seaver, [...]
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Bruce Stark,
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