A few germane baseball items over the week that I overlooked:
- In today’s edition, John Klima, author of the recently relased Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend (Wiley), published this item on how the Yankees blew their chance to sign Willie Mays.
- Just before Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig’s franchise record for base hits, the Times referred to a 1929 article in The New Yorker on the legendary Yankees first baseman. Unfortunately, the New Yorker website doesn’t carry the archives for free, but if you’re a subscriber to the magazine, you can access the story by Niven Busch titled “The Little Heinie.” Yeah, that would go over well today.
- And in honor of Jeter’s achievement, here are a few “base hit oddities,” courtesy of the Times‘ Bats blog.
And while it’s not the Times, the New York Daily News carried a special supplement honoring Jeter. I must be losing my touch; I didn’t buy it.
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