Happy spring!
Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour, authors of Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line between Innovation and Cheating, received their 2023 SABR Seymour Medal — honoring the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year — during the 30th annual NINE Spring Training Conference on Saturday, March 4 in Tempe, Arizona.
From RomeSentinel.com: “Local author discusses book on 1947 Utica Blue Sox baseball team.”
Most of you know my love of baseball and my love of movies, so you can imagine my love for baseball movies. Here’s a fun piece from Screenrant on “Every Real Baseball Player Portrayed In Field Of Dreams,” which includes, obviously, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Moonlight Graham, and several members of the Black Sox. In addition, there are references to “Other Potential Black Sox Players,” “The Players Spotted By Archie Graham,” and “Players Who Should Have Made The Team.”
Continuing on the movie theme: I never considered Moneyball to fall into that genre, but the author of “20 Biopics That Are Actually Worth Watching,” which appeared recently in The Atlantic, evidently does.
SanDiegoReader.com posted this notice about a discussion with David Krell about his book, 1962: Baseball & America in the Time of JFK. The event will take place Tuesday, March 28 at 4 p.m., which I assume means Pacific time.
The latest edition of the always-informative Sports Biblio Reader features “A meditation on baseball and religion.”
Evan Drellich’s new book, Winning Fixes Everything, was highlighted on NPR’s “Book of the Day” segment on March 17.
The Milan Public Library in Ohio invites “sports aficionados, history lovers, and community members” to a program on From the Spiders to the Indians to the Guardians: A Cleveland Baseball Celebration, by Martin Gitlin, from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, in the Milan Olak Community Room.
From Sportsblog.com, with spring training winding down, “Here are three reads guaranteed to help you make that vicarious visit to the hallowed grounds of the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues.” I’ll leave the titles as a surprise.
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