Bits and Pieces
September 24, 2010
Trying to play catch-up once again:
- Reviews of Michael Shapiro‘s Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
and Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
, by Josh Wilker, can be found on Meals from the Marketplace. Upshots: Bottom of the Ninth — “he book is must reading for anyone with a desire to learn what happened behind the scenes in the attempt to expand baseball dramatically at a time when football was just beginning to show its potential (since realized in spades) to overtake the sport as America’s national obsession.” Cardboard Gods — “…if ‘Cardboard’…isn’t an entirely upbeat read, it is most certainly a beautifully rendered one.”
- Mickey Herskowitz will be inducted to the Houston Astros Media Wall of Honor on Oct. 1. Herskowitz, a former writer for the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post, wrote or assisted in numerous sports bios/autobios including Mickey Mantle: Stories and Memorabilia from a Lifetime with The Mick
, Mickey Mantle: An Appreciation
, All My Octobers: My Memories of Twelve World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball
(another Mantle book), The Old Ballgame: The Greatest Memories of Baseball’s Greats
(with Tom Seaver), and Catcher in the Wry: Outrageous but true stories of Baseball
(with Bob Uecker).
- Larry Tye, author of the award-winning Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
, will discuss his book as the Concord Free Public Library (NH) begins its 2010-2011 Thursday Author Series on Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m.
- On Der Bingle’s bookshelf? “In Bing Crosby’s Wine Cellar, Vintage Baseball.” Bookshelf, wine cellar. You say tomayto, I say tomahto.
- Adrian Burgos, author of Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (American Crossroads)
, was a reference point in this Wall Street Journal article, “An Overlooked Baseball Pioneer.”
- This article from the Baltimore Jewish Times isn’t much about baseball per se, but it did kick off with a mention of W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe
.
is available on Amazon.com,
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