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* Now hear this: Allen Barra

July 18, 2009

That’s Barra, not Berra, although the confusion would be easy to understand. Barra is the author, Berra is the subject of this new biography of the Yankees’ Hall of Fame catcher. The writer — whose work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and on-line on Salon.com, crafted this serious-yet-entertaining profile on […]

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* Now hear this: Lisa Winston

April 2, 2009

A veteran of the minor league beat, Lisa Winston has been a writer, reporter, columnist, and multimedia correspondent  for such outlets as USA Today, Baseball/ Sports Weekly and, most recently,  MLB.com. She is a frequent guest on radio and TV sports talk shows around the country, and was the original host of the Fox News […]

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* Author interview: Jeff Pearlman

March 27, 2009

Jeff Pearlman, author of the damning new biography on Roger Clemens, took a few minutes to discuss his project with The Bookshelf. Pearlman’s latest — The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality (Harper) — is a frightening tale of a man who is at once on top of […]

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* Can you Topps this? Artist Brian Fox

March 26, 2009

Kudos to Mr. Fox. The artist received the assignment of a lifetime. His work has been selected by Topps as a special insert into their 2009 set. But not as a mere insert. Distributed among the thousands of packs are “redemption cards” which can be exchanged for one of 50 individually drawn card-size sketches. So […]

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* Now hear this: Jane Heller

March 13, 2009

It’s quite a leap from romance novels to baseball non-fiction, but Jane Heller has traversed the expanse surprisingly well. Heller, author of 13 books including Infernal Affairs and An Ex to Grind, has parlayed her life-long love for the Bronx Bombers into Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York […]

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* Now hear this: Baseball book merchant Bobby Plapinger

February 7, 2009 · 4 comments

The Bookshelf is interested in all aspects of the field: writers, publishers, and those who are the last stop on the way to getting those materials into our hands. Not all of it comes from large retails outlets. In fact, some of the more interesting outlets are small merchants with a love for their product. […]

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