James Traub has two piece in this weekend’s Times: A critique of The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís, by Mark Kurlansky in the book review section (which the critic deems a “charming and finely observed, if somewhat formless, baseball travelogue”), and a profile of Yankees’ reliever Mariano Rivera in the Magazine, which includes a fascinating video primer on the closer’s signature pitch.
By the way, you might notice there are not one but two advertisements for Doug Glanville’s book, The Game From Where I Stand in the book section (pages 21 and 22). You may wonder about this, but I’ll let you in on a little secret. The book is distributed under the Times Books imprint of Harper. I may be extrapolating, but I know at my newspaper, if there are a few ad slots we can’t sell, we stick in what’s known as a “house ad,” which promotes something in which the paper has an interest. It could just be a filler (“Read the Times“) or something like an ad for a Times‘ product.
Also in the Sunday Times, check out this feature piece on Norman Rockwell. It’s just ending as I write this, but the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass, held a special program today on the national pastime.
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