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A baseball book a day keeps (fill in the blank) away

April 17, 2015 · 1 comment

Sorry, couldn’t come up with an appropriate theme. Last week I linked to the first week in Tom Hoffarth’s annual 30-books-in-30-days feature. Catching up: Day 8: Bats, Balls, and Hollywood Stars: Hollywood’s Love Affair with Baseball, by Joe Siegman Day 9: A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball,by Jennifer Ring Day […]

Tagged as: baseball biography, baseball fiction, baseball statistics, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Joe Black, knuckleballs, Pitching, sabermetrics, World War Two

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Bits and pieces, March 16

March 16, 2015

Curt Smith, author of several fine volumes about baseball broadcasters and broadcasting, offers this nostalgic essay on “Spring training: Baseball’s Brigadoon” in the Irondequoit Post. Publishers Weekly published their annual list of new baseball topics. Unfortunately, it’s only available to subscribers. I’ll see if I can find an end-around at some point. “Spring inevitably means […]

Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, Curt Smith, Joe Black, John Klima, Mark Simon, Nolan Ryan, NY Mets, Rob Goldman, Sandy Alderson, Steve Kettmann, Who's Who in baseball

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Let the review roundups commence

March 6, 2015

Were’ getting to the point where the new baseball titles — at least the ones not dedicated to the fantasy side — will be coming out hot and heavy. Given the state of print journalism, I wonder how much space will be devoted to individual reviews. I think we’ll see items like this from the […]

Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bill James, Gil Hodges, Joe Black, Mike Matheny, New York Yankees, Willie Randolph

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Authors event: March at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse

February 19, 2015

Among the speakers at the Bergino: Thursday, March 5: Mort Zachter, Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life Thursday, March 12: Martha Jo Black, Joe Black: More than a Dodger Thursday, March 26: Matt Nadel, Amazing Aaron to Zero Zippers

Tagged as: Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Brooklyn Dodgers, Gil Hodges, Joe Black

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To Kill a Metaphor

February 11, 2015

The “Just a Bit Outside” blog on the Fox Sports site would have us believe that Joe Black, the one-year wonder for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952, is the baseball equivalent of Harper Lee, whose only published work — to date — was a classic. From the entry: What we’re looking for here is a […]

Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, Joe Black, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Bookshelf Review: Joe Black: More Than a Dodger

February 9, 2015

by Martha Jo Black and Chuck Schoffner. Academy Chicago, 2015. Rather than the blustery “best” or “greatest” that book titles seem to relish, this new biography of what basically amounted to a one-year wonder, is most appropriate. Joe Black, who burst on the scene in 1952 by winning 15 games and saving 15 more to […]

Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Joe Black

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On the horizon…

June 20, 2014

Made one of my occasional visits to Amazon for the purpose of seeing what new and exciting baseball titles or coming in the next several months. Here’s a sampling of some, excluding, as usual —  although with one major exception — books for younger readers. In nor particular order… * Baseball Explained. Phillip Mahoney, McFarland, […]

Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, Derek Jeter, Frank Cashen, Frank Robinson, Joe Black, Marty Appel, Marvin Miller, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Stave Alderson

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