If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.

The following appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 9, 2004. Looking back at Cleveland Indians Baseball

This review appears on JanuaryMagazine.com. Memory plays tricks on us. You and I could see the same thing, but years later recall it differently. Can we both be right? Yes, as Danny Gallagher and Bill Young prove in their nostalgic recollection Remembering the Montreal Expos. Read the full review on JanuaryMagazine.com.

<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>This review appeared in <em>ForeWord Magazine</em>, May/June 2003.</span></p> <p><span style=”color: #000000;”>Ever since academicians and historians such as Harold Seymour, David Q. Voigt, and Jules Tygiel began to make &quot;serious&quot; examinations of the national p</span><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=211,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/0786412720.jpg”><span style=”color: #000000;”><img title=”0786412720″ height=”213″ alt=”0786412720″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/0786412720.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px […]

<p>This review appeared in <em>BookPage</em>, May 2001. </p> <p>To watch our children playing together nowadays, it’s difficult to conceive of a <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=318,height=475,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/owens_1.jpg”><img title=”Owens_1″ height=”224″ alt=”Owens_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/owens_1.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> time when it was taboo for blacks and whites to join in a […]

Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, May/June 2002. The sub-genre of baseball-related poetry is probably one of the most under-appreciated in the great tradition of poetry and literature. “No matter how good a baseball poem is,” the editors write in the introduction, “some will always feel that baseball as subject matter relegates a poem to also-ran status.” […]

<p>Appeared on Bookreporter.com in 2005</p> <p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=476,height=695,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/faithful.jpg”><img title=”Faithful” height=”219″ alt=”Faithful” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/faithful.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Michael Kun, co-author of <em>The Baseball Uncyclopedia</em>, made a particularly astute observation about the state of baseball literature over the last few years. Go into a bookstore, he writes, […]

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/rise.jpg”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/rise_1.jpg”><img title=”Rise_1″ height=”175″ alt=”Rise_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/rise_1.jpg” width=”175″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>Appeared on JanuaryMagazine.com in Nov. 2003</p> <p>&quot;When Leonard Koppett died earlier this year, he left a tremendous void in the world of sports journalism. </p> <p>&quot;Koppett, who was named […]