Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Conversations with 17 Former Jewish Major League Baseball players, by Dave Cohen. Havenhurst Books, 2010. Hot on the heels, but apparently unconnected with the new documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, we have this new oral history collection conducted by Cohen, described on the publisher’s website as “the familiar radio voice of Georgia […]
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I had been looking forward to visiting Austin’s Antiquarian Books, a small store about a mile away from where we’re staying in Wilmington. I had gone online to see the type of material they offered and had visions of some old treasure. Sadly, when I arrived there a little while ago, I was met with […]
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I was honored by the request to pen the foreword for Jews and Baseball, Vol. 2: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949-2008, by Burton and Benita Boxerman and published by McFarland. The first volume, subtitled Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948, was published by McFarland in 2007. Like its predecessor, this new “must-have” serves as a thorough resource […]
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I was doing some research about Allan Roth, the Stephen Hawking of statisticians and came across this article (ostensibly) written by Branch Rickey for LIFE magazine back in the 1940s, courtesy of Baseballthinkfactory.com. Rickey, ever the innovator himself, credits Roth with a new set of numbers by which to judge the players, including on base […]
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Howard Megdal, he of The Baseball Talmud, was interviewed on the Marc Malusis Show on WFAN. You can here it here: http://rksbaseballbookshelf.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/howardmegdalwfan.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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January 27, 2010
I was honored by the request to pen the foreword for Jews and Baseball, Vol. 2: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949-2008, by Burton and Benita Boxerman and published by McFarland. The first volume, subtitled Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948, was published by McFarland in 2007. Like its predecessor, this new “must-have” serves as a thorough resource […]
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