Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without, by Robert Schnakenberg. Triumph, 2010. Schnakenberg takes his love for pop culture (anti-culture?) and puts a national pastime spin on it in this little faux-reference volume. The connection between PC and baseball has been handled in more serious veins by Jonathan Fraser Light […]
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Examiner.com, one of the websites that tailors to local communities, ran this piece on what is becoming a franchise book, _____ by the Numbers, in this case the Cubs (with a companion website). Matthew Silverman wrote the first of this genre about the Mets and titles about the Yankees (Bill Gutman) and Red Sox (Bill […]
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So just who did create the ubiquitous MLB logo? Jerry Dior, as per The Wall Street Journal? Or James Sherman, as in this ESPN piece? Seems like a no-brainer after this exchange between Sherman and ESPN’s Paul Lucas, who writes the always-entertaining and observant Uniwatch blog. Then I asked an innocuous question that changed everything: […]
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* Bookshelf Review: The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia
May 6, 2010 · 1 comment
Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without, by Robert Schnakenberg. Triumph, 2010. Schnakenberg takes his love for pop culture (anti-culture?) and puts a national pastime spin on it in this little faux-reference volume. The connection between PC and baseball has been handled in more serious veins by Jonathan Fraser Light […]
Tagged as: baseball humor, baseball reference, trivia
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