WGN-TV ran this interview with the author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. <embed type=’application/x-shockwave-flash’ salign=’l’ flashvars=’&titleAvailable=true&playerAvailable=true&searchAvailable=false&shareFlag=N&singleURL=http://wgntv.vidcms.trb.com/alfresco/service/edge/content/71c6d37d-5d3b-4761-b6d6-30e9d4315aac&propName=wgntv.com&hostURL=http://www.wgntv.com&swfPath=http://wgntv.vid.trb.com/player/&omAccount=tribglobal&omnitureServer=wgntv.com’ allowscriptaccess=’always’ allowfullscreen=’true’ menu=’true’ name=’PaperVideoTest’ bgcolor=’#ffffff’ devicefont=’false’ wmode=’transparent’ scale=’showall’ loop=’true’ play=’true’ pluginspage=’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’ quality=’high’ src=’http://wgntv.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf’ align=’middle’ height=’450′ width=’300′></embed>
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1970s baseball,
Dan Epstein
The Deaf Times published this profile of Jim Johnson, author of the 2008 biography “Dummy” Hanson: A Deaf Baseball Pitcher’s Life in the Hearing World.
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deaf athletes,
Dummy Hanson
Allan Roth did not invent baseball statistics. Henry Chadwick introduced those in the late 1800s, mostly for the benefit of the fans. What Roth did — first for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and later for network television broadcasts — was show how they could be used proactively, rather than as an afterthought published by newspapers […]
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Allan Roth,
baaseball statistics,
Hall of Fame
SFReeper critiques Emma Span’s look at the game from the distaff side and Jason Turbow’s do’s and dont’s. If the British read Moneyball, do they have to convert it into pounds or euros? The AV Club conducted this Q&A with Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. You gotta wonder if he grew […]
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baseball books
Jason Turbow (The Baseball Code) and Dan Fost (Giants Past & Present) will appear at an authors’ talk on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. This could be interesting: They could chat about the Marichal-Roseboro incident. For more information, call650-321-0600 or visit booksinc.net.
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baseball code,
Dan Fost,
Jason Turbow,
San Francisco Giants
Chicago Magazine published this profile of former Cub and current author/ESPN BBTN analyst Doug Glanville following the release of his excellent new memoir, The Game from Where I Stand, which it describes as “a blend of recast Times columns and new baseball-centric ruminations filed under broad chapter headings such as ‘The Stresses of the Game’ […]
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Chicago Magazine,
Doug Glanville
Before The New York Times went through all its cutbacks, the paper featured an occasional column called “The Sport of the Times.” Just so you know where the blog title comes from. In today’s paper, two books are selected for special attention. Following the brouhaha over Alex Rodriguez’s broken GPS against the As in the […]
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Bullpen Gospels,
mamoir,
rules,
superstitions,
The Baseball Code,
tradition
GhostofMoonlightGraham conducted this Q&A with the author of the well-done novel The End of Baseball reviewed on The Bookshelf in September. Leave This Blank:Leave This Blank Too:Do Not Change This:Your email:
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baseball fiction,
Bill Veeck,
Negro Leagues,
Peter Schilling
A couple of book-related items in today’s New Yotk Times sports section: In the print edition, Tim Wendel wrote “They Could Throw That Speedball,” as part of the “Spotlight” column, about the difficulties in coming up with the definitive answer to the question, “who was the fastest pitcher in history?” With all due respect to […]
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Dixie Walker,
Maury Allen,
New York Times,
Susan Walker,
Tim Wendel
Baseball is once again a art of the NPR syllabus. Steven Goldman and Jay Jafee of Baseball Prospectus made an appearance of The Brian Lehrer Show on April 2. The same day on Soundcheck, Jonathan Schaefer discussed the connection between baseball and music with Jeff Campbell, whose record label Hungry for Music releases compilations of […]
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baseball and music,
Baseball Prospectus,
National Public Radio
Several authors are making the rounds on radio shows and podcasts lately (I’ll be posting my interview with Danny Peary, co-author of Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero, shortly.) Among them: Danny Peary on New York Baseball Digest. Chris Donnelly, author of the book the Best Series Ever, the story of the 1995 ALCS between the […]
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Audio,
baseball books,
interviews
The co-authors of Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero sat down for this interview, courtesy of Simon and Schuster.
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Danny Peary,
Roger Maris,
Tom Clavin
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY behind here, so in an attempt to catch up, and let you all know I’m still here, I submit, for starters, a list of recent items: Our old friend Zack Hample is busy with his own writings (note to self: get cracking on the manuscript), but he has had time to glance through a […]
Blessyouboys.com, a Tigers-centric blog, ran this Q&A with Lee Panas, author of Beyond Batting Average: Baseball Statistics for the 21st Century. I haven’t read this one yet, but it made me think: One thing I forgot to ask Steven Goldman yesterday is, does there come a point when there are just too many stats? By […]
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baseball stats
Baseball GB posted this review of Joe Posnanski’s book The Machine. USA Today‘s “Game On” blog ran this Q&A/profile on James S. Hirsch, author of the much-anticipated bio of Willie Mays. More on the film project that won’t die: Michael Lewis’ Moneyball. And a mini-review from a New Zealander on the book. Former Yankees Jim […]
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baseball books,
Willie Mays
Sorry, couldn’t help the reference to this piece on AZ Snakepit, an unofficial Arziona Diamondbacks community and blog, which conducted this Q&S with Chrish Jaffe, author of Evaluating Baseball’s Managers: A History and Analysis of Performance in the Major Leagues, 1876-2008.
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baseball managers
No, I mean a “love” story, as offered in this interview with J. Conrad Guest, author of Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, on the “Timeless Romance” blog. More here.
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baseball fiction
of books about baseball and steroids. Steven Travers, author of last year’s The 1969 Miracle Mets, as well as several other sports titles, is hard at work on one. According to his page at redroom.com, a community for authors, “STRIKE THREE! by Steven Travers promises to be the first, and most comprehensive book to provide […]
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PED,
steroids,
Steven Travers
Cincinnati.com recently ran this item on the author of Traded: Inside the Most Lopsided Trades in Baseball History (ACTA), which rates 300 deals made over the last several years.
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Doug Decatur,
trades
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Bits and pieces
May 22, 2010
SFReeper critiques Emma Span’s look at the game from the distaff side and Jason Turbow’s do’s and dont’s. If the British read Moneyball, do they have to convert it into pounds or euros? The AV Club conducted this Q&A with Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. You gotta wonder if he grew […]
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