Recent author appearances, in person and in print

♦ Bruce Spitzer, author of the sci-fi-ish novel about Ted Williams rising from the dead, was on Beyond the Game, a White Plains community access cable channel. ♦

♦ Received a copy of Ronnie Joyner‘s new Hardball Legends and Journeymen and Short-Timers: 333 Illustrated Baseball Biographies yesterday. It’s a throwback to the days when newspapers often included caricatures of players with factoid-driven bios. While Googling to learn more about him, I came across this brief 2010 interview he did with the Baseball By the Letters blog.

♦ Triumph Books does an excellent job in rounding up reviews of their books and interviews with their authors. Here’s a general link which changes often, so you should check back occasionally.

♦ Former MLB player turned author (The Game From Where I Stand) turned analyst Doug Glanville contributed this piece to Time following complaints that Johan Santana’s June 1 no-hitter against the Cardinals was “tainted” because an umpire blew a call.

♦ Peripatetic author Allen Barra opines for The Atlantic on “Roger Clemens’s Long, Expensive, and Probably Useless Trial.”

♦ Finally, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me did another of their “best of” programs featuring “Not My job” segments. Cal Ripken Jr. (who has written a few books about playing the game the right way) was the final guest.