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Profile by Ron Kaplan

* 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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* 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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Mickey Rutner as muse

October 2, 2007

World’s oldest Jewish ex-major leaguer tells all Just over 60 years ago — Sept. 13, 1947 — Mickey Rutner hit his only major league home run. He did it as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics in an 8-2 win over the Chicago White Sox. Rutner, who has made his retirement home in Georgetown, Tex., […]

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Tagged as: Eliot Asinof, Mickey Rutner, Mn on SPikes, Philadelphia Athletics

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Profile: Elinor Naeun, editor of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

September 7, 2007

When songwriter Julie Styne penned “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” he couldn’t have known that it would apply not only to jewelry, but to green fields and wood bats. Elinor Nauen recognized the dual meaning when she edited an anthology of baseball writing by women. The collection features a lineup of heavy literary hitters […]

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