The author of Card Sharks: How Upper Deck Turned A Child’s Hobby Into A High-Stakes, Billion-Dollar Busines was interviewed by the blog Wax Heaven: Trading Cards and Pop Culture.
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Congrats to Gary Sheffield for hitting home run number 500 last night at City Field. It’s about time this one got a rewrite anyway. Since it came out in 2000, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., Sammy Sosa, Raphael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, and Frank Thomas have all joined the exclusive club. Of […]
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What a shocker to learn The Bird had passed away so suddenly. I remember seeing Fidrych beat the Yankees on an ABC Monday Night Baseball telecast in 1976 during a day off from the summer camp where I coached the softball team. His antics drew rave reviews from the announcers and appreciation from the fans. […]
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The Toronto paper published this piece on its website, which mentions The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (albeit it, not the current edition) and Philip Lowry’s Green Cathedrals.
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The back page of The New York Times Book Review features a full page advertisement from Bauman Rare Books. I usually don’t pay attention because as much as I lvoe ’em, they’re out of my league, to borrow from a famous title. But a photo of Joe DiMaggio caught my eye and sure enough there […]
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I wish George F. Will would publish another baseball book. In the meantime, here’s his quiz from the current issue of Newsweek. Read an excerpt from Bunts. Read an excerpt from Men at Work.
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The Baseball Reflections blog (“where Old School baseball meets Sabermetrics”) posted this review of Miracle Man: Nolan Ryan, The Autobiography (Macmillan 1993). Upshot: Ryan touches on many different aspects of baseball and life throughout the book and the fact that he wrote it while he was still in the middle of his career gives readers […]
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Has it come to this? A future Hall of Fame pitcher has go practically go begging for a job? It seems to, in the person of Pedro Martinez. Granted, he’s had his share of injuries over the last few years, but from my uneducated perspective, he seems like a good guy to have around the […]
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Paul Dickson, author of Baseball: The President’s Game (and most recently the third edition of his Baseball Dictionary), is featured in this Newsday article about Barack Obama and the long history of CoCs and the national pastime.
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Now begins the backpedaling. Torre and Cashman are still pals, says this article by Jack Curry in today’s NY Times. And Richard Sandomir contributes this thoughtful column on the style the author’s used (third person): “a hybrid in the sphere of celebrity autobiographies, in which a star hires a writer to render his or her […]
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It’s nice to know people are still reading the classics. This review of the Malamud novel comes from BaseballReflections.com
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From Beyond the Box Score, this review of Brad Snyder’s book of the baseball rebel.
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Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game, by Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella (SportsClassic Books, 2004) as reviewed on Seamheads.com. Upshot: This volume is tremendously researched and the documentation presented from various newspapers hands the reader a first-hand impression that the interpretations of an author could never convey 90 years after the fact. It […]
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Seeking to make the most from the opportunity, Columbia University Press posted this little update after Charles A. Alexander, author of Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era (published by CUP in 2002), was interviewed the other day in The New York Times. I inadvertently omitted his book from a brief listing of others […]
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It’s too late to attend the book-signing, but for those who are interested, there’s a re-issue of Honolulu Stadium: Where Hawaii Played as reported in the Honolulu Advertiser.
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It’s quite appropriate that baseball’s winter meetings are held around the holidays. If your team’s front office guys are good, you can get a swell present of a 40-home run slugger or Cy Young-caliber pitcher. Or you can get a lump of coal. It’s way too early to report on anything major, so in the […]
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Thirteen years in the making. In 1995, I delivered my first “scholarly paper.” It was at Hoftsra University’s centennial celebration of Babe Ruth’s birth and it was a hoot. I spent three days there, listening to all sorts of presentations, visiting exhibits and finally — nervously — making my own. My topic was “The Books […]
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April 6, 2009
One of the major complaints from fans and (especially) non-fans is that the games take too long. Don’t look at it as a lot of down time; instead perceive it as a chance to catch up on your reading. That’s why I love compilations such as those published by The Washington Post‘s Thomas Boswell and […]
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