A different kind of profile for this young author of The Old Boys of Summer: 100 Years of Baseball (1845-1945). I don’t want to give too much away, just spare a few minutes to read this heart-warming story.
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Author Profile / interview
* Author profile: Thomas Kirkpatrick
August 18, 2008
* Author interview: Don Rhodes
August 12, 2008
From the Catoosa County News, this Q&A with the author of Ty Cobb: Safe at Home.
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* Author interview: Adrian Burgos, Jr.
August 6, 2008
From the University of California press website.
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* McCarver on NPR updated
August 5, 2008
As the great radio personality Harvey would say, “and now for the rest of the story.” WNYC has updated the Tim McCarver segment of the Leonard Lopate show from last Friday so here you go: http://audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate080108apod.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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* Author profile: George Vecsey
August 5, 2008
For some reason (there’s no context for it), The International herald Tribune published this brief profile of Vecsey, most recently the author of Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game.
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* McCarver on National Pastime Radio
August 4, 2008
Tim McCarver appeared on The Leaonard Lopate Show on Friday to promote his new book, Tim McCarver’s Diamond Gems. (Great, another book of anecdotes.) For some reason, the segment was not made available when the others from the day’s show were. I wondered if it had more to do some diabolical desire on the part […]
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* Giving a new definition to "coming out of the pen"…
August 2, 2008
The Fresno Bee reports on the travails of Tony Mansolino, one of the thousands of minor leaguers whose dreams of getting to the bigs fails to materialize. Mansolino turned his experience into Dreams Will Come, Dreams Will Go, a story for younger readers about a veteran bush leaguer who can’t get over the hump. Mansolino […]
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* Author profile: Ray Negron
July 27, 2008
Newsday ran this piece on Negron, who has just published a kids’ book on Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson.
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* Gelf Magazine update
July 26, 2008
GelfMagazine.com — motto: “Looking over the overlooked” — has always been berry berry good to baseball. In recent issues, they’ve done interviews with authors Tim Wendell (Castro’s Curveball, Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America), Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney (It Take More Than Balls: The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball), […]
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* Author interview: Richard Doster
July 26, 2008
The Creative Loafing blog features this interview with Richard Doster, author of the novel Safe at Home.
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* Jules Tygiel
July 23, 2008
Jules Tygiel was instrumental in getting me interested in academic baseball literature. His books on Jackie Robinson were a pleasure to read, not laden with citations and footnotes. He dided just before I went on vacation so I was not able to adequately pay respects. I wondered how such a “niche” author would be memorialized […]
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* A tribute (?) to Yankee Stadium
July 18, 2008
In the Times’ latest on-line edition of Play, this piece about the old/new ballparks in the Bronx. Economist Andrew Zimbalist, author of Baseball and Billions, among other titles, recently discussed the same topic on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show, which you can hear here: Amazon Report on Andrew Zimbalist: The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on […]
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* Author profile: Fay Vincent
June 29, 2008
Author of We Would Have Played for Nothing from the Springfield, MA Republican. Upshot: Vincent is a nice guy.
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* Author profile: Steve Garvey
June 29, 2008
Author of My Bat Boy Days, from Tampa Bay Online. Upshot: “It’s an idyllic little baseball book, 149 pages of pure Eisenhower- Kennedy era nostalgia.”
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* Author profile: John Wolff
June 24, 2008
Former minor league player and coauthor with his father of The Harvard Boys. From the Bristol Herald Courier.
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* Author profile: Dale Tafoya
June 19, 2008
In today’s Modesto Bee. Odd that anyone would want to be associated playing a role in the steroids era, but according to the piece, What you may not recall, though, was Canseco and McGwire during their stay in Modesto. Canseco was here in 1984, McGwire the final month of ’84 and all of ’85. They […]
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* Now pitching: Hall of Fame catcher Bench
June 17, 2008
Johnny Bench was published a book that seems to be a combination of memoir, and motivation/self-help. According to this article in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Catch Every Ball: How to Handle Life’s Pitches (Orange Frazer Press) “looks at how diligence, dedication and perseverance describe a common trait of most professionals and high achievers: pluck.” Pluck? That […]
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* Author Q&A: John Feinstein
June 13, 2008
* Remembering Mark Harris
June 3, 2008
The author of the Southpaw trilogy died May 30, 2007. I thought this would be an appropriate time to give him some kudos. First up, this piece by Jeffrey Greenberg, written last December. It was originally published on The Hardball Times web site and is reprinted here with their kind permission. I’ll be posting more […]
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* Author profile: Dale Tafoya
June 3, 2008
The author of The Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed, gets the treatmen courtesy the Contra Costa Times. Note to local readers: Tafoya will be signing copies of his new book at Borders in Pleasant Hill on Saturday, June 8.
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