♦ With the latest scandal, I wonder if books about the Black Sox will get a bump in readership? To catch up, here’s a piece from The Atlantic: “Baseball’s Big Whiff on Gambling.”
♦ Journalist Terry Moran posted this piece on “The Storyteller: Joe Posnanski on what sports tells us about love, loss and belonging” on his “Real Patriotism” substack.
♦ Like it or not, Donald Trump approved a pardon for Darryl Strawberry in relation to his 1995 guilty plea for federal tax fraud, a White House official confirmed to the New York Post on November 7. Strawberry is coming out with a new book — Another Life: Discovering the Healing Power of Purpose on My Long Journey from Player to Preacher — next summer.
♦ In a bit of a switch, The Good Phight, a Phillies-centric part of SB Nation, has a (mostly) non-baseball book group.
♦ The Cornell Sun posted this profile of Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game and Sometimes You See It Coming. Baker also collaborated with Reggie Jackson on Becoming Mr. October: The Revealing Story of Reggie Jackson and the World Champion New York Yankees. Here’s my latest Bookshelf Conversation with Baker.
♦ BlackNews.com posted this piece about Michael E., author of Game Changer Rube Foster and the Birth of Black Baseball: The Man, the Myth, the Forgotten Legend.
♦ Will Vancouver receive a new franchise when baseball expands? Maybe. But in the meantime you can read about that city’s heritage in Play Ball! The Amazing Stories and Captivating Characters Who Have Made Baseball a Winning Ticket in Vancouver for Over 100 Years by Tom Hawthorn, who was a contributor to Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball.
♦ Salon.com posted this piece on Jane Leavy’s new book, Make Me Commissioner. Here’s my Bookshelf Conversation with Leavy.
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