This review of David Halberstam’s last book comes from the Seattle Times.
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It might be a bit later, but Negron, a special advisor to the Yankees, will read from and sign his new book, The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie, tonight (July 25) at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant at 42 Central Park South in Manhattan New York, from 6pm-8pm. From the Gotham baseball blog: “The […]
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From our favorite baseball blog across the pond.
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Mike Shropshire’s book, as reviewed on The National Sports Review site.
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Baseball on television is like the weather. Everyone complains about the late starts to accommodate the networks, the lousy announcers, the lengthy games because of commercials — but no one does anything about it. Following the most recent All-Star game, which ended at 1:40 a.m. Eastern time, Marketwatch.com published this piece on Center Field Shot: […]
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I was planning to do my own analysis of Derek Gentiles recent title, Baseball’s Best 1,000: Rankings of the Skills, the Achievements, and the Performance of the Greatest Players of All Time. One thousand? seems like a mighty task Mr. Gentile has undertaken. Would you mind being the last on that list? After all, there […]
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From the Advocate Weekly, serving the Berkshire and Bennington (MA) Counties, in which the former commissioner discusses his book and current events in the game.
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General: Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. The passing of the former ballplayer puts this one on top. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The closing of the ballpark makes this subgenre hot. But why don’t they wait until the final season is over, which would complete […]
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“And now for something completely different….” From the Baseball in Great Britain blog.
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From a broader review of Texas-pertinent books from the Abilene Reporter News: Baseball history: Two historians at the University of Texas at Arlington, Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks, have edited a collection of six scholarly essays on Baseball in America & America in Baseball (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover). The essays were […]
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From the SF Chronicle‘s Web presence, SFGate.com. Metaphor alert: “Baseball is more than a game. It is a microcosm of America….”
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On the June 21 edition of Only a Game, Bill Littlefield offered this interview with John Feinstein, author of Living on the Black. (Sorry, but you have to listen to the preceding stories before you get to the Feinstein segment.) Read an excerpt from Living on the Black. The Leonard Lopate Show of June 24 […]
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from the Rio Rancho Observer.
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From the pages of Sports Illustrated.
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by Frank Nappi. St. Martin’s Press I don’t ordinarily read baseball fiction aimed at the young adult demographic. Most are simply rehashes of the same story: young athlete, usually a star, faces adversity in the form of another player on his own team or a health crises or another at-home situation; learns valuable lessons, yada-yada-yada; […]
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