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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 3, 2016

June 3, 2016 · 1 comment

NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on […]

Tagged as: baseball analysis, ESPN, instructionals, Jim Palmer, Los Angeles Dodgers, Michel Lewis, Mike Matheny, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, Pitching, St. Louis Cardinals, Ted Williams, Tim Kurkjian, Ty Cobb

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Blowing up the ’43 World Series

December 3, 2015

One of my new favorite TV shows is Manhattan, based (loosely, I assume) on the men and women who worked on the atomic bomb. The episode “Overlord” highlights the continuing problems caused by Robert Oppenheimer’s frequent absences from project business as he cavorts with his mistress. One of the main characters, Charlie Isaacs, himself a […]

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