It’s with sadness that I report the passing of Harvey Frommer, the very definition of “a gentleman and a scholar,” who passed away August 1 at the age of 83. In a way, Harvey was responsible for the Bookshelf. It was almost 30 years ago when my first by-lined piece appeared in print: a book […]
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The next Moneyball? * A few “inside baseball (business)” pieces coming up: In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball by long-time SABR members Mark Armour and Daniel Leviit. John Pessah adds to this sub-genre with The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers. Lonnie Wheeler’s Intangiball: The Subtle […]
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Please note there’s a new venue for the May 5 Varsity Letters program hosted by Gelf Magazine featuring Jonah Keri, Harvey Frommer and Lang Whittaker. The event will be held at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. (between Broadway and University Pl.) in Manhattan. Enjoy! Looks like a fun night.
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Harvey Frommer (Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox), Jonah Keri (The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First), and Lang Whitaker (In the Time of Bobby Cox: The Atlanta Braves, Their Manager, My Couch, Two Decades, […]
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Frommer adds to his already-impressive oeuvre of baseball books with Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox. This colorful coffee-table edition bookends nicely with his 2008 release, Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The House That Ruth Built” from the same publisher, Stewart, […]
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For me, as a freelance writer, anyway. My first major published piece was a review of Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, by Harvey Frommer for Elysian Fields Quarterly in 1993, which you’ll find after the break. I wax nostalgic because I learned at the recent SABR Convention that EFQ might be forced to ceases publication […]
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This review on Harvey Frommer’s paean to the House that Ruth Built comes via River Avenue Blues. Upshot: Frommer has crafted a great mix as he honors Yankee Stadium, and presenting a building that has stood the test of New York time for so many decades is no easy task.
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I’ll be doing my on Q&A with Frommer soon, but in the meantime, here’s one from The Baseball Toaster with the author of Remembering Yankee Stadium.
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Harvey Frommer’s tarvels in the baseball world have been just as extensive as that other Frommer guy’s. Gelf.com features him in this recent profile highlighting his new book on Yankee Stadium. And could someone tell what the rush to publish is all about? There are several books on the old ballpark, but the fact is, […]
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The author of Remembering Yankee Stadium — one of the a seemingly endless stream of such books, albeit perhaps the best packaged — will be making several appearances in the New York, Vermont, Virginia, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas. For more details, visit his site.
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