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Doris Kearns Goodwin

In honor of Women’s History Month, I wanted to pay tribute to that demographic of fans and athletes and could think of no one better than Barbara Gregorich to weigh in on the topic. Gregorich is the author of Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball (which is included in 501 Baseball Books […]

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Baseball best-sellers, Sept. 19

September 19, 2014

Note: Just like Chuck Lorre’s “vanity cards” at the end of The Big Bang Theory, you should read these list stories to their conclusion; the end is always changing, even though the theme is basically the same, finishing up with a self-promotional message. On with the show… Here are the top ten baseball books as […]

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Note: Just like Chuck Lorre’s “vanity cards” at the end of The Big Bang Theory, you should read these list stories to their conclusion; the end is always changing, even though the theme is basically the same, finishing up with a self-promotional message. On with the show… Here are the top ten baseball books as […]

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This sweet piece by my friend Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud, reminded me of when my daughter Rachel was a little girl and I tried to get her involved in baseball. I didn’t start as early with her, but she was into it for a couple of years. One of my favorite drawings […]

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There was a disproportionate amount of baseball on the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. In “Who’s Carl This Time?”, we heard from Alex Rodriguez: CARL KASELL: I think that Major League Baseball has done me a big favor because I’ve been playing for 20 years without a timeout. PETER SAGAL: That was […]

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Too smart for me

July 12, 2012

I often wonder why some of our most intellectual writers would want to do baseball. Perhaps, as Star Trek‘s Mr. Spock said in the episode “Shore Leave” (Geek alert!), “The more complex the mind, the greater the need for play.” So when a George Will or a Tom Olpihant or a Doris Kearns Goodwin starts […]

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