I love these studies that take a “scholarly” look at the game. So much time spent on such a relatively unimportant slice of life. You heard me. I said what I said.
Coming soon (I hope) to a theater near you: The League, a documentary about Black baseball. The film — from director Sam Pollard with executive producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson — premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 12. Not in NYC? No worries: The League hits limited theaters on July 7 before being available to stream digitally on July 14.
From Comicbook.com, this review of Super Mega Baseball 4. And another from Polygon.com.
From KJZZ in Tempe, AZ, “Many different languages are spoken in baseball clubhouses. Here’s how teams make it work,” featuring an interview with Brendan O’Connor, an associate professor in ASU’s School of Transborder Studies and author of Multilingual Baseball: Language Learning, Identity and Intercultural Communication in the Transnational Game.
With the holiday just around the corner, here’s “Books that would make great Father’s Day gift for Cardinals fans” from stlsportspage.com.
From Sports Collectors Daily, “New Book Brings Clarity to Deadball Era Baseball Photograph Collecting,” by Jim Chapman.
Glad to see that despite all the BS in politics, this is still going on. I wonder if there’s a printed program.
From The New Yorker‘s “Strategist” column, “This Scorebook Makes Watching Baseball Fun.” This will be the topic of a separate entry, but I’m fascinated by all the different permutations of scorekeeping. The article, by Kelsey McKinney, also mentions “the behemoth in the scorekeeping community: Bob Carpenter’s Scorebook,” which I also have to get my hands on. Evidently there are three different versions: one for TV, one for radio, and one for “just” fans.
Finally, here’s a fun little quiz from the Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Chuck on “A succession of names: When baseball and TV intersect.”
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