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Came across this video of wunderkind Bryce Harper — last year’s No. 1 Draft pick by the Washington Nationals — preening and strutting after hitting a home run (he doesn’t begin his trot four four seconds). Yes, we know he’s got a lot of potential (Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine cover stories). But if […]
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Just a reminder to those of you in the NY Metro area. Tune in to WNET/Channel 13 tonight at 8 p.m. for the documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. I’ll be on at some point during a pledge break (unless they mercilessly left me on the editing floor).
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MLB Finally Allows Its Videos to be Embedded No longer will I have to subject you to video links that make you wait through multiple clips to get to the point I’m trying to make. “[T]he league has finally (albeit quietly) relented and is now allowing blogs and other websites to embed some videos, though […]
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Had an unusual and fun experience on Tuesday. WNET/Channel 13 will broadcast the documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story on Monday, June 6, at 8 p.m. According to the program description on the website, “Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax and more greats are featured in this look at Jewish Americans and baseball.” Didn’t know […]
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The product in question is the collectible bobblehead doll that serves as an occasional giveaway at games. At least that’s the sense you get when you see this piece by Ken Belson in today’s Times. The Mets plan to offer an Ike Davis model for the July 19 game. He’s already on the disabled list. […]
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When did Fred Wilpon become George Steinbrenner? Perhaps the pressure of the season — with all the Madoff business, the rumors about being forced to sell the team, etc. — have finally gotten to the Mets owner. at least that’s what some might say given this story in The New Yorker. I have not read […]
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“MLB probes Dodgers’ Ethier for obscene gesture” Two thoughts: A) What are they hoping to find and where, exactly? B) Isn’t that a bit harsh punishment for flipping the bird to someone?
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“You got to have a lot of little boy in you to play this game.” Even if the game is “just” softball. Thanks to my own senior softball team manager, Sam, for passing this along.
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Been meaning to post about this for a couple of days. Don’t know what kind of pickup this story has been getting outside the New York area, but hearts were all aflutter on Saturday because Yankees long-time catcher Jorge Posada — batting .165 and hitting in the number nine spot in the lineup against the […]
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From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Killebrew Family, Hall of Fame and the Twins Announce Funeral and Memorial Plans The Killebrew Family, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Minnesota Twins have announced plans for the memorial services and burial of the late Twins legend and 1984 Hall of Fame inductee Harmon […]
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Paul Dickson, author of several highly-acclaimed baseball titles, was selected to receive the 2011 Tony Salin Memorial Award, given by the Baseball Reliquary to in recognition of commitment to the preservation of baseball history. Highlights from Reliquary press release: Dickson is the author of nearly 60 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he […]
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Say a prayer for Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew. Just received this statement via the Baseball Hall of Fame: “It is with profound sadness that I share with you that my continued battle with esophageal cancer is coming to an end. With the continued love and support of my wife, Nita, I have exhausted all […]
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The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, which recognizes outstanding baseball research in areas other than history and biography, has been awarded for the following books published in 2010: Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson, by Timothy M. Gay (Simon & Schuster) Evaluating Baseball’s Managers: A History and […]
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The Baseball Reliquary — “an organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history” — might be seen by some as a “renegade” outfit. They buck the established order of things with their own Hall of Fame, aka, The Shrine of the Eternals. TBR just announced the […]
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And speaking of Jeter… From the Montreal Gazette of April 27: Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez are teammates, but that’s not to assume they’re friends. The Captain, an unauthorized biography by sportswriter Ian O’Connor, chronicles the soap operatype relationship between the two New York Yankees superstars. In the new book, which is supposed to hit […]
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Opened the sports section this morning to find this story, “A Summer with Uncle Casey In the Town He Owned.” It was written by veteran columnist George Vecsey, but you wouldn’t know it from the print edition; the byline was omitted. This is the second time in a few weeks such a gaffe has been […]
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Very sad, the end of Ramirez’s career. To have played as long as he did, only to have people look at you funny now that this information has come out. But in a bizarro way, you have to give him credit for not saying: “It was my teammate’s stuff. I didn’t know what it was.” […]
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The team has scored three runs in three games, one of those coming on a home run by Ben Zobrist. I know it’s very early, but only Zobrist and B.J. Upton have more than one hit. The Rays are dead last in the Majors in runs, on-base percentage, slugging average, and batting average, with an […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
Buster Posey: Occupational hazard
May 27, 2011
San Francisco Giants’ star catcher Buster Posey was severely injured on a collision at the plate with Scott Cousins of the Florida Marlins on Wednesday. By all accounts it was clean play, the kind that’s been a part of the game since its inception. The runner’s job is to try to score at all costs […]
Tagged as: Bruce Bochy, Buster Posey, Jeff Berry, San Francisco Giants
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