UPDATE: As of earlier this afternoon, the Pirates have decided restore Clemente’s sign. (Yiddish for “a shame.”) I try to keep politics out of the Bookshelf (I have another blog for that: The Worried Journalist), but with all this anti-DEI BS impacting baseball, I think it’s appropriate to address the situation. The Pittsburgh Pirates recently […]
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I was shocked to hear the news this morning that Andre Braugher has passed away. Braugher, 61, made his TV debut on Kojak but really received attention as Det. Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Streets (created by David Simon, a Baltimore Orioles fan). He appeared in numerous movies and other TV shows, most […]
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♦ Hope everyone is doing well out there can that they got their taxes done in time. Now for some pleasant diversion. ♦ I’m surprised something like this didn’t come from Triumph Publishers: The St. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know. It seems right up their alley and could be purposed for every team. […]
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Hard to believe it’s been 75 years since Jackie Robinson’s debut. I sometimes think about the veterans of World War II and how old they have to be to have served back in the early 1940s; Robinson would have been 102 this year. Where does the time go? There have probably been more books written […]
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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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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 final Conversation in a series featuring contributors to 42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. George Vecsey, a former columnist for The New York Times, is one of the most venerated sportswriters of the last fifty years. His books include Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game, Stan Musial: An American Life, and The […]
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Part three of a series featuring contributors to 42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. Baseball and media studies are two topics that have always captured my interest. So when they meet in a single volume, it’s a bonus. Chris Lamb, author of Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and The Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball, is […]
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Part two of the series featuring contributors to 42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. Jonathan Eig has built a notable writing career for his well-crafted biographies of iconic figures such as Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season, not to mention Ali: A […]
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I have been fortunate enough to contribute to a couple of collections: The Babe at 100, based on the symposium held at Hofstra University in 1995 to mark Ruth’s centennial birthday (“The Books on the Babe”) and The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin’ Story of How the 19698 Mets Shocked the World (“October ’69: The […]
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Remember these? ♦ I must admit, this is probably not something I would read, given my admitted non-English major inferiority complex when it comes to talking about baseball fiction, but the recently-released Jack Madison: The Shaping Of His Life, by Larry R. Wiles looks like it has some “life lessons” to offer, especially during Black […]
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As I mentioned in the previous post, I was looking into baseball titles that came out during the year. So why not kill two birds with one stone with my occasional looks ahead. So looking ahead to 2021, in no particular order: Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood, by Dave Parker and Dave Jordan […]
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Note: 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 writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Once in a while at work, we have some fun by going around with our favorite fill-in-the-blank at the end of our pre-opening meeting. Last Friday — Aug. 28 — we were asked to name our favorite childhood and current movies. I couldn’t recall a flick from my youth at the time (The Wizard of […]
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Note: 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 writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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From the San Jose Mercury News on the day after the anniversary of the event… “Oops! ‘Jeopardy’ contestant thinks Babe Ruth broke baseball’s color line.” “Jeopardy” is in the middle of its annual “College Tournament” and we’re getting the feeling that some of these kids need to be hitting their history books a little bit […]
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I don’t know how I missed this. Robinson would have been 100 years old on January 31. The Museum of the City of New York recently launched an exhibit titled “In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend.” And a brand new JR Museum — also located in New York […]
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