Bits and pieces

June 1, 2010

  • Yankees.baseball-news-update.com posted reviews of two titles: Dayn Perry’s Reggie Jackson, and 1921, by Spatz and Steinberg. While the writer deems both to be “serious and thoughtful volumes displaying highly impressive research….  neither book quite fully succeeds.”
  • A celebrity first pitch I’d love to see: A profile in Smithsonian Magazine outs Harper Lee, author of the classic To Kill a Mockingbird, as a Mets fan: “During the summer, when she would migrate to New York City, she would go to museums and the theater and root for the Mets, the natural choice for someone with an underdog thing as big as the Ritz.”
  • Several works from the Fantography.net project — the brainchild of Andy Strasberg — will be on display throughout June at the La Jolla Riford Library in San Diego.
  • Baseball Happenings ran this review of The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes by Brent Kelley. Upshot: “It’s a compelling look into the lives of the men who for most of their career, played in obscurity solely due to the color of their skin.”
  • An  excerpt from The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship, by Cinn. Enquirer reporter John Erardi and baseball researcher Joel Luckhaupt.
  • Big Hair & Plastic Grass is one of the five books Justin Moyer of WashingtonCityPaper.com would read.
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