From the hilarious blog, Stuff White People Like, this essay about fandom at Wrigley Field.
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In the days before pre-programmed music blasting from the rafters, major league ballparks employed people to play the organ to entertain the fans. Jane Jarvis played the Thomas organ for the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Mets. To be honest, I thought she had passed on years ago. But she’s very much alive and […]
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Maybe it’s the long lazy days, the lack of intensity, that lends itself to so many friendly interviews. These days I listen to the ESPN Baseball Today podcast, hosted by Peter Pascarelli, which includes at least two friendly little per show, often with a player and a manager. This morning I as I was driving […]
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You couldn’t be blamed for not recognizing the name. But if you think back to the movie version of Eight Men Out and take a look at this picture of actor Richard Edson, you might recall Billy Maharg. In the film, Abe Attell, Arnold Rothstein’s bag man and ex-championship boxer, says to the ballplayer, very […]
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From “My Grandma’s of New England“ Pure Dark chocolate morsels are sprinkled, along with fresh walnuts, throughout the middle and atop this already luscious rich and moist chocolate batter. This cake was tasted by Hall of Famer Ted Williams, the greatest hitter in the history of baseball, and deemed worthy enough to be named “The […]
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From the Palm Beach Post. I’m embarrassed to say I got a 92.
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Brian McNamee claims he injected Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with HGH for the couple’s appearance in SI‘s 2003 swimsuit edition. Now McNamee has a new list of enemies. It’s one thing to besmirch the National Pastime, but when you start messin’ with that other great American institution, well them’s fighting words. ESPN’s Jim Caple makes […]
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You’ll have to trust me on this (because WordPress is very unfriendly to us poorer bloggers and doesn’t make adding technologically-hip features easy, if possible at all). By clicking the “open publication” button below, you will be able to read a sample of a SABR Bibliography Committee newsletter. The concept, from Issuu.com, is kind of […]
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At the risk of appearing heretical, this may seem like a football piece, but it applies to the sports broadcasting industry as a whole. Over the weekend, the local all-news radio station predicted 4-6 inches of snow from Sunday night into Monday morning. My daughter was excited at the possibility of a snow day or, […]
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One of my first published pieces appeared in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. Off-hand, I can’t recall what it was other than that it was a book review. Although he didn’t know it, Bill sort of launched me on my second career as a writer. Buoyed by the confidence that comes with […]
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Gerald Astor, 81, Writer on Americans in Combat, Dies “After his wartime service, he received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton. He was the picture editor of Sports Illustrated in its early years and worked as an editor for Sport magazine, Look, The Saturday Evening Post and Time….Mr. Astor edited The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th […]
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We’ll see. We’ll see.
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From The New York Times, Dec. 31 “Dusenberry was born on April 28, 1936, in Brooklyn, the eldest child of a cab driver. He attended Emory & Henry College, in Virginia, on a baseball scholarship, but he dropped out after the athletic program and his scholarship were discontinued….” “Mr. Dusenberry also dabbled in the film […]
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At the end of each year, many magazines, newspapers, and TV shows devote some space/time to celebrities who passed away during the previous 12 months. Sad to say, I’m at the age where the incidence of those baseball figures I recall from my youth are heading for that great dugout in the sky. Among those […]
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Three book reviewers for The New York Times weigh in with their top choices of the year. Not much of a surprise that there are no baseball titles deemed worthy of inclusion (not even on their list of 100 Notable books for 2007.) I actually have a few of the titles listed, including Michael Chabon’s […]
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What, if anything, those rankings mean on Amazon.com or the Barnes and Noble site (BN.com) mean, read Carl Bialik’s March 23, ’07 column from his Wall Street Journal column, “The Numbers Guy.”
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J. Russel Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, died today at the age of 109. Born Sept. 1, 1898, Coffey played semipro baseball in Akron, earned a doctorate in education from New York University, taught in high school and college and raised a family.
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Trying to clean up a lot of backlog here: *** From the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, this review of Dana Brands’ Mets Fan. *** Charles C. Alexander, author of biographies on Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, as well as a treatise on baseball during the Depression, recently released his studious account on Tris Speaker. […]
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The truth is out at last
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“I’d like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition.”
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