♦ Jim Bouton passed away a few months back, but the tributes keep coming, such as this one by Max Frankel on Offthebenchbaseball.com. And this from the Albany Herald‘s Barry Levine.
♦ Tony Award winners Billy Crudup, Tony Shalhoub, and Tony Award nominee Zachary Levi will take part in a live reading of author Don DeLillo’s baseball novella Pafko at the Wall: A Novella
♦ “Campo de Sueños,” an art exhibit in Sacramento State’s University Union, is showcasing the Mexican American history of baseball and softball in Sacramento until Sept. 19. More info here.
♦ Back in 1993, I thought to write a book about the woefully disappointing Mets after acquiring they had acquired all this top-notch talent during the previous off-season. The working title was Our Summer of Discontent. (True story, my college baseball team did call me Shakespeare). During the campaign I watched every single game, keeping a very elaborate score sheet for each one. I did miss one contest: the night our daughter, Rachel, was born. But seeing my disappointment over breaking the streak, my wife, Faith, contacted WFAN-AM, who was doing the coverage at the time, and convinced them to send me the audio of the game on cassette tapes (that’s how far back we’re talking). I shopped it around, very naively, and, as you can tell, the book was never published. So I can see disappointment of this writer as he comes to understand how his project on the 2019 Red Sox will not see the light of day.
♦ Is that Phsyioc of psychic? Steve Physioc, a broadcaster for the Kansas City Royals, wrote an award-winning historical novel inspired by a dream he had.
♦ Cleveland Rocks! When it comes to new baseball books at least. Competing with New York?
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