and the remainder table. If it can happen to Yogi…
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From the category archives:
Because I can…
Recently, my Facebook friend Jeff Pearlman, author of the new Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, posted this on his blog, reprinted in full: Writing books is what I love to do. I’m not just saying this. It’s my true passion; something that brings me happiness for 1,001 […]
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Or something like that. When I was writing 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die, one of the things I had to deal with was going, hat in hand, to ask people I respected to write those little blurbs/advance praise things. Now I’m the one being asked, and it’s pretty flattering I must […]
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Between now and opening day, every baseball writer/pundit and his or her uncle will be offering their predictions for the baseball season. Some outlets go so far as to predict individual award winners. Some enterprising IT person can probably discern the percentage of those who get everything right. It has to be miniscule, right? A […]
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I picked up second “annual” of the year. Gotta say, how about a little imagination, guys? It’s pretty lazy (and artistically lame), to fall back on featuring Derek Jeter and David Wright on the New York regional edition, especially in consecutive years. Just sayin’.
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After digging out three times yesterday, including two bouts of shoveling after the town’s plows pushed back the snow I had already cleared from my driveway, I thought I could get out this morning. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Wrong. Like thieves in the night they came back in the wee morning hours to once again block our driveways, […]
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Never too early to start… Should have quit after the first toss.
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I’m a bit chagrined to admit, but I don’t read as much of the Sunday New York Times as I should. But once in a while I’ll find something that makes me go “Hmmm.” So here’s one from yesterday’s Week in Review section about “Scribbling in the Margins.” Now, while I would never deface a […]
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The Super Bowl is over; spring training still doesn’t open for a couple of weeks. Someone should come up with a name describing this period, where all there is, is basketball and hockey. Kind of a sports limbo. But now it’s time to catch up. Started in earnest working on the next book, a history […]
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The iconic folk singer/activist died yesterday at the age of 94. These videos I found on Youtube were posted by Rolland Moussa who told me in an e-mail, “[Pete] wanted me to film it because he wanted to be known as an American who loved baseball, not labeled as a Communist.. No one had a […]
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Thanks to all those who responded to the book giveaways. Stuart S. of Springfield, IL will receive The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (truss not included) Greg M. of Redding, CT gets The 34-Ton Bat, which, surprisingly, does not need a truss. Sorry if there was any confusion, but the comments are moderated […]
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I know baseball is just a game, and no one should take it too seriously, but this just brought down baseball-reference.com in my eyes just a bit. They’re supposed to be the ne plus ultra when it comes to chronicling the game, so for them to include this, holiday or not. There are just some […]
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Football-looking image, but the sentiment applies to baseball as well.
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Another in an attempt to look over the over-looked news in baseball books. I’ve only just begun listening to the unabridged audio book of Bill Bryson’s newest, One Summer: America, 1927, but if Richard “Pete” Peterson says it’s “a good read for Cards, Cubs fans,” that’s good enough for me. Kevin Baker, who worked with […]
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Or amazing, or unbelievable. There’s yet another batch of “awards” this year from Major League Baseball: The GIBBYs, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly awards. That ain’t even good English. Please. How many awards can you give already? These seem to duplicate a lot of honors that have been awarded for years: rookies, batters, starting […]
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There’s always a major thing going on while I’m on vacation that I don’t hear about until I get back. In this case it was the “announcement” that Derek Jeter might enter the publishing world when he retires from his playing career. According to a piece in the Nov. 14 NY Times, “Jeter, the Yankees’ […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
Context is all: Ian Kinsler and ESPN The Magazine
March 7, 2014
It should come as no surprise that the ESPN The Magazine article about Ian Kinsler referred to earlier this week on my other blog, has generated some buzz. In the grand scale of things, it won’t matter, but for now, with a routinely dull spring training under way, with A-Rod out of the picture, the […]
Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Detroit Tigers, ESPN the Magazine, Ian Kinsler, Texas Rangers
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