Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town…

April 5, 2012

What the heck is toddlin’ anyway?

The Chicago Tribune posted several items of literary baseball interest recently.

♦ Rob Manker on the 30th anniversary of the publication of W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe. One of the scarier points: many kids who first read the book now have kids of their own.

♦ James Finn Garner, who runs Bardball with Stuart Shea, published this piece about the connection between baseball and poetry. You can see him in an interview here, wearing a T-shirt that advertises his newest book, Honk Honk, My Darling: A Rex Koko, Private Clown Mystery.

♦Author and former Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter published this piece about his childhood memories as a Cubs fan.

 

Tagged as: Chicago Tribune, James Finn Garner, Jonathan Alter, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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