Bits and pieces

October 2, 2012

♦  The Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel published this piece by Mark Souder, a former congressional representative, about his favorite White Sox books, including this year’s Paul Dickson contribution, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick.

♦  Tony La Russa is making the rounds on his book tour. He was a recent guest on NPR’s The Leonard Lopate Show (which you can hear below) and also chatted with Robert Siegel, heard here via the Charlotte NPR website. La Russa will be in Petaluma, CA on Oct. 4, his birthday. He will also appear at Books, Inc. in Alameda on Saturday, Oct. 6. Must be cool to be him right now, he’s got three great book appearance opportunities going for him based on past managerial successes and more if you included the towns for which he played as a major and minor leaguer. Here‘s s profile from the Chicago suburban publication, the Daily Herald.

♦  Short deadline, but if you can follow the guidelines, you might be interested in this call for submissions for the forthcoming print anthology Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction.

♦  The EyeforCollecting blog features uber-collector Max Weder, who makes my library look sick by comparison (and I don’t mean that in the 21st century “sick=great” definition).

♦  And because you can put these on a bookshelf: looks like someone is not enamored of the necklaces many players wear these days.

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Tagged as: Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox, Leonard Lopate, National Public Radio, Paul Dickson, Robert Siegel, Tony LaRussa

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