Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood that famous quote from Forrest Gump. If it’s a box of chocolate covered cherries, don’t you know exactly what you’re going to get?)
On the one hand, I’m happy to report that I’m catching up/running out of these old links. On the other hand, it’s been cool reminiscing.
I highly recommend Pocket as a way to hold onto links you come that you want to keep. Unlike bookmarks, Pocket keeps the entire page and makes it relative easy for you to find stuff you “pocketed.” I have keepers going back six years — more than 5,000 links — and I’ve decided it’s time to start cleaning house so here are some submitted for your amusement, perusal, and education. Some are not current, but in a sense, they’re timeless.
- I’ll post just about anything that links the Marx Brothers to baseball, no matter how tangential.
- I’ll be traveling to San Diego in November for my book about the Maccabiah Games. Hope I have a bit of down time so I can visit the San Diego Baseball Research Center, headquartered at the San Diego Central Library.
- A reminder of why baseball is “the best — and least exploitative — American sport” from The New Republic.
- Daddy, where do baseball bats come from?
- The NY Mets’ Jennry Mejia was recently suspended for a second time for PED use. Maybe it’s appropriate for a re-issue of Trading Manny: How a Father and Son Learned to Love Baseball Again, the subject of this piece from WBUR, an NPR station in Boston.
- If you don’t want to read about baseball’s woes, perhaps Back, Back, Back, a “serio-comedy about the various maladies plaguing America’s favorite pastime” would be more to your liking (if you can find some company that’s doing it at the moment.)
- NY Times sports media columnist Richard Sandomir wrote a nice “catching up with” piece on Jimmy Breslin, author of one of the great books about the Mets.
- ESPN hosted this Q&A between R.A. Dickey, author of Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball
, and some of their site visitors.
- New American published this profile of conservative political pundit and baseball author George F. Will. (Donald Kagan wrote this “conservative critique” of Will’s baseball writings for National Affairs in 1990.)
- More recently, Will wrote this trivia quiz in honor of this year’s opening day. Apparently there was at least one error.
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