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Baseball plays/theater

Bookshelf Review: Bull Durham: The Musical

October 17, 2025

Bull Durham: The Musical, Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn , NJ Full disclosure: Despite my admiration for the works of Rogers and Hart/Hammerstein and other geniuses of the genre, I am not a huge fan of musicals. I think the idea of people just bursting into song in the middle of activity is a bit silly. […]

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Lest We Forget: Tab Hunter

July 11, 2018

Tab who? Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO. Hunter, a heartthrob in the 1950s and 60s, played the character of Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, one of the great musicals of all time. Of course, Hunter, who died on Sunday at the age of 86, played in many other movies, but for the purposes of this […]

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Please, Dear God, no…

December 16, 2013

Associated Press: ‘Bull Durham’ musical to debut in Atlanta.

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Happy quasquicentennial, Casey!

June 6, 2013

A fair share of the recent Cooperstown Baseball Symposium considered myriad aspects of Casey at the Bat, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this month. The esteemed sportswriter Frank Deford was the keynote speaker for the event. Deford contributed a speculative article, “Huge Commotion in Mudville” to the July 18, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. Shortly […]

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The play’s the thing

April 13, 2012

It’s kind of too bad (for me) that Rob Fleder’s new book has the same name as a musical favorite that’s currently touring. Whenever I see mention of Damn Yankees, I assume it’s for the former, a collection of essays about the Bronx Bombers, but more often lately it’s about the theatrical work, which has […]

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