♦ For better or worse: According to overthemonster.com, “Moneyball is one of the five most important baseball books ever written, and given its easily absorbed central premise, it’s often used as a verb to describe building a baseball team on the cheap.” And it goes on from there in this piece about the effect such a “movement” has had on the Red Sox.
♦ It’s all Utica all the time. From Channel 2 in Utica, NY, “Utica native publishes The 1947 Utica Blue Sox – A Baseball Season to Remember.
♦ This is what greed gets you. Or rather doesn’t get you. Re: the Aaron Judge ball, “Predicted by an auction house to break records and sell for more than $3 million, the ball went for half that amount.” Read all about it in this NY Times piece.
♦ If I recall, next year will mark the last for Topps baseball cards. Please correct me if I’m wrong. A sneak peak at the finale and a reminder of the “Evolution of Topps Baseball Cards” since its debut in 1951. A couple of decades ago there was a great oversized book on the cards featuring all the fronts. Would love to see a final version but I imagine it would be unwieldy to produce and outrageously expensive.
To be honest, I haven’t been a big fan over the last several years. The number of cards has decreased and the players they chose to include mystify me in many cases as well as the decision process in determining how many cards per team were rendered. It used to be pretty uniform but lately that hasn’t been the case.
“[A]n action-packed” baseball novel “filled with adventure, romance, and international intrigue?” That’s supposedly what you’ll get in Miracle Pitch: The Adventures of David Moore by Dale L. Berne, at least according to the press release. Meanwhile Fireballer, by Mark Stevens, is a fictional account of a “player’s troubled past and the power of forgiveness.”
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