* New title seeks the spiritual side of the game

2009 title

From PR Newswire: In the midst of its continuing steroid scandal, baseball’s redeeming moments are highlighted in Hugh Poland’s Intentional Walk: More Devotions for Baseball Fans (Spring Arbor/Ingram Book Co.). With spring training underway and fans restless with anticipation for a new season, Intentional Walk shares inspiring stories from the clubhouse, the dugout, and the […]

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* Author appearances: Robert Coover

Author appearance

Coover, now 77, is considered one of the best writers of adult baseball fiction thanks to his 1968 classic, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., Henry J Waugh, Prop. He’ll be making a couple of appearances in the Buffalo, NY area. Asa reminder, here’s a review from The New York Times in 1968 by Wilfred Sheed.

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* Better late than never

Classic title

From SharedReveiws.com, this item on the classic Baseball Encylcopedia,published by Macmillan.

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* Author appearance: Tom Stanton

Author appearance

The Albion District Library is proud to welcome author Tom Stanton on Sunday, March 22, at 2 p.m. in support of the “Pride & Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience” traveling exhibition, which has stopped in Albion for six weeks as part of its three-year national tour. Mr. Stanton, the 2008 winner of the Michigan Author […]

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* The way Jeter's been playing over his career, it hard not to get a big head

Because I can...
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* Let's hear it for the boys in blue

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Dodger Blue and umpires, that is. The Leonard Lopate Show on NPR today featured two baseball segments. In the first, Although Walter O’Malley has been dead for nearly 30 years his, the former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers owner is still one of the most controversial persons ever associated with the sport. Michael D’Antonio’s exhaustive […]

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* Author interview/National Pastime Radio: Paul Dickson

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Dickson, author of the third edition of his eponymous Baseball Dictionary, was the subject of this recent interview on NPR’s All Things Considered, which you can hear here. Paul was kind enough to forward the transcript of the program, which appears here for your convenience: COPYR IGHT 2009 All Things Considered® Copyright 2007 NPR. ROBERT […]

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* Get me to the church on time

Annoucements

(Note: Even though I’m a Mets fan, the greater baseball fan in me overrules, hence this event announcement that take place in Philadelphia.) A Celebration of Baseball’s Greatest Song, Greatest Team, and Greatest Organ. St. Malachy’s Roman Catholic Church, located at 1429 N 11th St. in Philadelphia, hosts a vaudeville-style celebration in honor of favorite […]

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* McCarthy books yields interesting comments

"Ripped from today's headlines..."

Scroll down yesterday’s post on Odd Man Out to read the excellent comments to date. For more, visit The Perpetual Post.

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* The McCarthy hearings, baseball edition

Commentary

Earlier this month, The New York Times called out Matt McCarthy for supposed errors and misstatements in his new book Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit. I must admit, I was convinced. After all, it is The New York Times we’re talking here. They wouldn’t make such an […]

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* Authors being authors

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This week’s Only a Game featured a Bill Littlefield interview with Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg, authors of Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger. This one is high on my “to read” pile as it seems to go beyond the standard player biography. The segment comes at the 21:58 mark, preceded […]

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* This week in Sports Illustrated

Magazines

The cover of SI shows Albert Pujols flexing his muscles and asking baseball fans to believe in him. Sports pundits on shows such as Pardon the Interruption make no bones about saying they;re having a difficult time believing anyone these days, that it’s become a matter of guilty until proven innocent. But with drugs evoling […]

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* Review: As They See 'Em

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Scott Simon reviews Bruce Weber’s new book on umpires. You can read an excerpt here.

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* Base Ball, Esquire

Magazines

The April edition of Esquire celebrates opening day with three baseball-related items: A profile of Red Sox reliever John Papelbon, by Chris Jones “The Data,” a new column by Baseball Prospectus’ Nate Silver on “What Tim Geithner can learn from baseball.” Looks like you should have take your bar mitzva money and invested it in […]

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* Now hear this: Jane Heller

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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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* Problems with the new Clemens bio? Here we go again?

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This item from The New York Times casts another shadow over a new book. In The Rocket Who Fell to Earth, Jeff Pearlman’s new biography on Roger Clemens, the author reports an account offered by an unnamed Yankee episode in which Brian Cashman purportedly took Jason Giambi to task for poor performance by shouting at […]

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* Announcement: Travelling Hall of Fame program

Annoucements

Hall of Fame, American Library Association Partner To Tell Story of Pride and Passion Traveling Exhibit Dedicated To African-American Baseball Experience Making Its Way To 50 Libraries Around America (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the American Library Association have teamed up to help tell the story of the […]

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* Announcement: The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009

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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain […]

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* Torre book finds an Angell

2009 title

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t go back to a review of The Yankee Years; that so over. But I’ll make an exception for Roger Angell. The veteran sportswriter praises the work of both Torre and Verducci (“Verducci has range and ease; he’s a shortstop on the page.”) In the book, it’s a rush when you reach those […]

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* So would this be "pop" Topps?

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The Topps company recently announced a new high-tech collectible: 3D Live baseball cards. The idea is you hold them in front of your webcam (because absolutely every collector has a webcam these days) and it renders the card as an avatar on the screen. You can rotate the card to see it from all angles, […]

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