♦ Congrats to Jan Powal, who was recognized for her breaking the gender line for Major League umpires and was the subject of a question in the latest weekly New York Times quiz.
♦ Greatly looking forward to Jane Leavy‘s forthcoming, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It. After the strike of ’94 several baseball pundits and players came out with such books addressing the perceived problems with the game. Here’s just a sampling, in nor particular order:
- Taking the Field: A Fan’s Quest to Run the Team He Loves, by Howard Megdal
- Dropping the Ball: Baseball’s Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them, by Dave Winfield with Micheal Levin
- Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball, by Bob Costas
- Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster Salaries, Sham Records, and a Hall of Famer’s Search for the Soul of Baseball, by Mike Schmidt with Glen Waggoner
- The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves, by Keith Law
Tom Loverro offers this piece on Leavy’s latest in the Washington Times. Leavy has been a guest on The Bookshelf Conversations twice for her books on Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth.
♦ Wayne Stewart‘s 1960: When the Pittsburgh Pirates Had Them All the Way is one of “6 books that put NE Ohio in the spotlight” per this piece on Cleveland.com (although last time I look, Pittsburgh was in Pennsylvania, but then geography was never my strong suit).
♦ WSIU, the NPR affiliate for Southwest Illinois University, posted this item, “Meet John DeMarsico, the artistic director behind NY Mets’ baseball cinematic visuals.” The depiction of the control room in the video below brings me back to my grad school days in the Brooklyn College TV department, although with much less pressure involved.
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