As you know, I almost never include children’s books here. But in this case I’ll make an exception because it was written by former MLBer Ryan Lavarnway. The fact that it is about his experiences with Team Israel for the World Baseball Classic is a bonus, especially as we enter the High Holiday season.
Frederic Frommer references Chris Lamb‘s Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball in this Washington Post piece about “The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration.” Not sure why this is particularly germane now, since the book was published in 2012, although, sadly, the topic of racism is omnipresent.
Following my Bookshelf Conversation with Jonathan Mayo, here are “7 Reasons to Read Smart, Wrong, and Lucky” from Pitcherslist.com. The author offers an excerpt on his MLB.com gig.
There’s still a Saturday Evening Post? Who new. But here is a collection of baseball cartoons — more than 60 years old! — from that iconic publication.
From Shondaland.com, “Author Erin Carlson on the Transformative Power of ‘A League of Their Own’”.
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