History is Now Magazine posted this piece about “George Rawlings and the Glove That Helped Change Baseball.” Thankfully, the author didn’t use my bugaboo word, “forever,” in the title.
If you’re a subscriber to The Wall Street Journal, you will be able to read their review of Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship. If not, oh, well.
A recent Hall of Very Good Podcast hosted Jonathan Eig (a Bookshelf Conversation guest as well) “to talk about the recent news of his Lou Gehrig biography being made into a major motion picture, how to cast New York Yankees legends, breaks down his favorite (and least favorite) baseball movies…”
From the New Ulm (MN) Journal: “Former New Ulm Journal Sports Writer Pat Donnelly, who wrote for The Journal from 1985 through 1990, is in the process of writing a fictional baseball book that is based on his experiences as a player with the New Ulm Brewers from 1988 through 1991.”
And now for something completely different: From across the pond in the Sussex Journal, “A British reader discovers Roger Kahn’s classic portrait of baseball, Brooklyn and post-war America.” The classic in this case is The Boys of Summer, in case you hadn’t guessed.
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