Baseball Best-Sellers, July 22, 2022

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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Trailer trash?

Baseball movies

Reading Ron Shelton’s wonderful book, The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit — which I reviewed for an upcoming post on Bookreporter.com — I was interested in seeing the trailer again. I wondered if it was “true to the final product.” Many […]

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PSA for the PBBC, July 22, 2022

Pandemic Baseball Book Club

Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly […]

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I’ve got a little list

Lists

Recently received The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed Baseball by Paul Aron. I first learned of this book when I was researching for a “Coming Down the Pike” entry; thankfully, it did not include the word “forever” (regular readers of this blog know my feelings about superlatives in titles). I was trying to find the […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, July 15, 2022

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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Lest we forget: Harvey Dinnerstein

Baseball art

Dead at 94. His portrait of Joe DiMaggio has appeared in numerous books about baseball art, including the cover of From The New York Times obituary by Richard Sandomir …Mr. Dinnerstein largely depicted the life around him: on the subway, in parks, outside brownstones like his own in Brooklyn. In a rare foray into portraying […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, July 8, 2022

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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The Bookshelf Conversations: Jean Fruth

"Bookshelf Conversations"

When my daughter decided she wanted to go into photography as a career, I was worried. Since everyone who has a smartphone is a photographer now, how are you going to make any money off that? But not everyone who has the ability to use a camera phone has the talent to make their shots […]

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The Bookshelf Conversations: Will Carroll

"Bookshelf Conversations"

He blinded me with science! Never a strong suit of mine in school, and normally I would stay away from any book that would remind me of that failing, but Will Carroll‘s latest book does have baseball in the title so… Carroll has long been the go-to guy for all things injury-related (his Twitter handle […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 24, 2022

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Hard to believe this is already the end of the first half of the year. Where did the time go? A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close […]

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PSA for the PBBC, June 17, 2022

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Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly […]

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Times marches on

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One of these days I have to ask publicists, “what goes into getting a book reviewed in The New York Times” or something like the New York Review of Books? Numbers vary as to how many books are published every year. One figure I’ve seen puts it at 4,000,000, another more than 3,00,000 but that […]

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Sidebar, your honors

Uncategorized

Just shows how lazy I’ve been. Adding the latest “Bookshelf Conversations” — Andrew Forbes, Kostya Kennedy, Howard Megdal, and Bill Chuck — I noticed how outdated many other items are, such as “What I’m reading now” (always multiple books, like being back at school); “Recently reviewed”; as well as links to authors’ sites and other […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 17, 2022

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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The Bookshelf Conversations: Bill Chuck

"Bookshelf Conversations"

Somewhere in the attic, among all the boxes of baseball material, are a stack of scorecards and programs I’ve used over the years. The first one was from a Mets-Pirates game in 1966. It has the unsophisticated scrawls you’d expect from a nine-year-old who hadn’t yet learned the “right way” to record what was going […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 10, 2022

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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PSA for the PBBC, June 10, 2022

2021 title

Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly […]

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PSA for the PBBC, June 2, 2022

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Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly […]

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Lest we forget: Ray Liotta

Baseball movies

Meant to post this a while back. The actor famed for, among other roles, his rendition of Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams died last week at the age of 67. There have been complaints about the casting of and portrayal by Liotta as the shamed Black Sox outfielder. For one thing, there was […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 2, 2022

"Bookshelf Conversations"

A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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