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Baseball humor

* A look ahead at baseball titles

February 17, 2009

From our friend Greg Spira comes this link to LibraryJournal.com’s annual baseball feature. Among the usual share of biographies and memoirs, histories, and social commentaries are such themes as: Yet another biography about Yogi Berra, this one by homonymic author Allen Barra, and one on Walter O’Malley by Michael D’Antonio Ira Berkow’s bio of Lou […]

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Tagged as: new baseball books

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* Spring is in the air

February 2, 2009

This is the time of year when home gardeners (of which I am one) look forward to receiving their seed catalogs. I also enjoy getting the latest from the publishing world. Today I received the Ivan R. Dee catalog, which includes the following baseball titles: Catcher, by Peter Morris — The author of such neo-classics […]

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Tagged as: Baseball Digest, Donald Honig, Peter Morris

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* "You're the Topps, you're a baseball classic…"

January 23, 2009

(With apologies to Cole Porter.) Recently discovered this very well-produced and hilarious webisode series about the Topps baseball card company. Rather than go into great detail, I’ll let you discover it via BackonTopps.com. It’s a cross between Dallas and Curb Your Enthusiasm. You can also download the series through iTunes.

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* 2B or not 2B, encore

December 12, 2008

Once again proving that a) baseball is the most intellectual of sports and b) fans get very confused at this time of year as players move from team to team.

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