♦ Keith O’Brien (Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and The Last Glory Days of Baseball ) wrote about the history-making “Robo-Ump” strike-zone technology for Rolling Stone.
♦ The New York Times published this book review on John Miller’s new biography, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball, giving it high marks.
♦ SABR announced its winners of the Henry Chadwick Award, “established to honor the game’s great researchers — historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists — for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.” Congrats to this year’s recipients, Robert Fitts, Gary Gillette, and Richard Malatzky.
♦ In his latest “Reading Baseball” and annual Black History Month commentary on NPR station WSIU (Southern Illinois University), Pete Peterson talks about Vic Harris, “a legendary negro league manager who Pete believes was wrongly left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame again.”
♦ From Townepost.com, author “Wendell Lloyd Jones Uncovers the Louisville Grays’ Story” in his first book, The Louisville Grays and the Myth of Baseball’s First Great Scandal (which actually came out last year).
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