I have been a poor host.
Other than the weekly best-seller list and the (thankfully) occasional “Lest We Forget” posts, I have not done enough to fulfill my self-appointed responsibilities of bringing you the latest news. Maybe that will be one of my resolutions. But we all know how long those last…
Anyway…
- A feature/Q&A from the Southern California Press-Telegram about Jean Fruth and her new documentary on women in baseball, See Her Be Her. Here’s the Bookshelf Conversation I had with her in 2022 following publication of her Grassroots Baseball: Route 66.
- “From playing bass to writing about baseball: Supe Granda has a new Cardinals-themed book out,” a story by veteran sportswriter Rob Rains on stlsportspage.com.
- From KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, a profile of Jay Jackson, the “MLB pitcher who made mid-season trips to visit son in Utah hospital shares message in new book,” 9 Innings to Living Your Best Life.
- Apparently Joe Maddon, author of The Book of Joe, has a podcast bearing the same name which he co-hosts with Tom Verducci.
- I am embarrassed to admit it, but when I was a kid, I found a library book that was overdue by a week or two and rather than pay the fine, I left it in the vestibule. If only I had held onto it for another 40 years or so, I might have been this guy who used a “50-Year-Old Overdue Library Book to Raise Money For Literacy Charity.”
- Devin Gordon, author of So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets, the Best Worst Team in Sports (Bookshelf Conversation here), published this piece about Willie Mays in “The Lives They Led,” an occasional column in The New York Times.
- Once again, my two favorite pastimes meet: Dave Zirin‘s “Edge of Sports” podcast takes a look at “Why Baseball Movies Matter” with Noah Gittell, author of Baseball: The Movie (Bookshelf Conversation here) and Arya Shirazi, who offers “the five most essential baseball movies of all time” and whether they still hold up.
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