Remember these?
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I must admit, this is probably not something I would read, given my admitted non-English major inferiority complex when it comes to talking about baseball fiction, but the recently-released Jack Madison: The Shaping Of His Life
♦ Another title appropriate for BHM is The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend’s Battle for Civil Rights during World War II
♦ WYSO, a public radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, reran a 19-year-old interview with Nicholas Dawidoff. The piece features Baseball: A Literary Anthology, for which Dawidoff served as editor.
♦ Speaking of public radio, here’s the segment I mentioned yesterday on WNYC’s All of It about Effa Manley.
♦ As per the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago newspaper:
On Tuesday, March 16, celebrate women “stepping up to the plate” during World War II with “Peaches and Baseball” at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Rebecca Tulloch, a vintage Rockford Peach, shares the story of the real-life Rockford Peaches and the film that was inspired by them, “A League of Their Own.” Register at tinyurl.com/PeachesBaseball.
♦ Always looking for some offbeat sources of baseball stories. Here’s one from the Irish Times about Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, which the article’s writer “had never heard of…until a few days ago.” The piece was published yesterday and compares some of the precepts of the classic book with Gaelic football.
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