Poor Derek. Has to juggle all those daunting tax issues. That’s why you pay an accountant!
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From the category archives:
Bits and Pieces
The former general manager of the Cincinnati Reds of the Big Red Machine era, died at the age of 89. Howsam was also GM for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1964-66, right before the team won back-to-back pennants.
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PinstripesPA reviews Haunted Baseball by Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley, while Tailgatecrashers post this piece about The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan, by Glenn Guzzo. As the days go by and more attention is paid to the use of amphetamines and other drugs associated with easing ADD/ADHD, Jim Bouton’s Ball Four will […]
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What next, sponsorship by Chico’s Bail Bonds? It’s bad enough there are so many variables — three tops, three bottoms, warm-up shirts, etc., not to mention all the different hats… Marc Okkonen published a colorful history (left), which chronicles the changes — subtle and not so — for all the franchises during the 20th century. […]
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Lots of “Bits and Pieces” With little beside the steroids business going on during this off-season, there’s lots of time to read and many bloggers are posting reviews, including. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, Cobb: A Biography, and Is This a Great Game or What, all from […]
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The author and SABR member died Jan. 2 at age 52. According to an obituary in the Boston Globe: Mr. Thompson contributed nearly two dozen articles over the years to the organization’s research publications. In 2005, he published his first book, “The Ferrell Brothers of Baseball,” a biography of the Ferrell family of North Carolina, […]
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Each year, usually on the Sunday before Opening Day, many major market newspapers publish a baseball supplement. This can range from a few pages within the sports pages or a stand-alone section. In an attempt to analyze the kind of jobs these papers do, I’d appreciate anyone willing to do so to mail these items […]
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Long-time baseball executive John McHale passed away recently. Furman Bishop recalled his old friend in this column from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. McHale, who played a few seasons for the Detroit Tigers in the 1940s, was also a driving force for the Montreal Expos, and is remembered in this piece by that city’s Gazette.
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Not for nothing, but I think we can eliminate the adjective “record” when describing how baseball salaries increase every year. Baseball’s average salary rose 4.6 percent last year to a record (emphasis added) $2.82 million, and the New York Yankees set a high for teams at $7.47 million. Like they’re ever going to go down? […]
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Since we’re heading into awards season, this seemed appropriate:The Gummies, picking the best and worst baseball card-related items of the year. Unfortunately, there’s no explanation for the picks, nor a list of the other nominees that were in the running.
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A sad reminder of a man cut down in the prime of life, the only major leaguer to die as a result of an injury sustained on the field. Chapman was hit in the head by submariner Carl Mays on August 16, 1920. His story was chronicled in The Pitch That Killed, written in 1989 […]
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Larry Whiteside, one of the first African-American beat wrietrs to cover a team on a daily basis, died Jan. 11. at the age of 69. He had been a member of the Boston Globe staff since 1973 and wrote for papers in Kansas City and Milwaukee as well. Whiteside was posthumously elected the 2008 winner […]
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Matt Bishoff, Darysbay.com (A Tampa Bay Rays blog): What is your favorite baseball-related book and who is your favorite baseball writer? Jim Callis: Just one baseball book? That’s tough! I’m going to have to throw out a few, and I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones. My favorites would include the Bill James Baseball Abstracts, […]
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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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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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Every time the High Holidays come around, you can be sure you’ll be reading stories about Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, the two greatest Jewish baseball players of all time. Both refused to compromise their religious beliefs to play on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews — Edgar Guest even penned […]
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The Spaceman turns 61 today. Books by or about Lee include: Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game, with Jim Prime (Triumph, 2007) The Wrong Stuff, with Richard Lally (Paperback edition by Three Rivers Press, 2006) Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond, with Richard Lally (Paperback […]
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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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Mediacurves.com offers an interesting look at public opinion at Barry Bonds’ home run record, as expressed during a commentary by CBS’ Bob Scheiffer on July 22, just prior to the Giants’ outfielder breaking the record. A “real-time” graph shows how much the test audience agrees of disagrees with what Scheiffer is saying. Visitors to the […]
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Perhaps jumping on the drug bandwagon/confessional, Otis Nixon, a former outfielder for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, is reportedly working on a book that describes his battle with drugs. *** Actress Laraine Day passed away Nov. 10. She was dubbed the “first lady of baseball” for her marriage to Leo Durocher, then the manager […]
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