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The Bookshelf Conversations #197: Kevin Baker

May 13, 2025 · 0 comments

I may have said it before, but I should have some sort of gimmick for repeat guests, akin to Saturday Night Live‘s fancy smoking jackets for five-time hosts. This marks my third Conversation with Kevin Baker (and there will be a fourth when his new book — the follow up to The New York Game […]

Tagged as: baseball fiction, Kevin Baker

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Bits and Pieces, July 11, 2024

July 11, 2024

Starting July 14, the price of a First-Class Forever stamp is going from 68 cents to 73 cents. Too bad I can’t stock on this nifty Hank Aaron model, but it’s not due out until the 31st. With the All-Star Game fast approaching, this interview with Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game from […]

Tagged as: Hank Aaron, Jose Canseco, Kevin Baker, Minnesota Twins, Pete Rose

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The Bookshelf Conversations #178: Kevin Baker

May 2, 2024

Take two. Don’t know what happened, but the original post from earlier this week disappeared like a Doc Gooden curveball. Not even a draft of it, so I’m trying to recreate it as faithfully as possible. It seems to many outside the area that New Yorkers have an inflated image of themselves (at least those […]

Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Kevin Baker, New York Giants, New York Yankees

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Sorry to miss this one

June 25, 2014

But I have a softball playoff game scheduled for tonight. And sorry for the late posting, but if you’re in NYC tonight, The Museum of the City of New York is hosting… New Yorkers and Baseball: A Book Talk Wednesday, June 25 at 6:30 pm Join noted authors and baseball fans George Vecsey, Kevin Baker, […]

Tagged as: George Vecsey, Kevin Baker, Lee Gutkind, Stefan Fatsis

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The Bookshelf conversation: Kevin Baker

December 11, 2013

Did a writer of Kevin Baker‘s renown really need a gig like this? After all, he’s already has 10 novels under his belt, beginning with his Sometimes You See It Coming, a contemporary version of Ty Cobb’s tumultuous life, published 20 years ago. And just this past September, Baker released The Big Crowd. This doesn’t […]

Tagged as: Becoming Mr. October, Kevin Baker, Ladies and Gentlemen the Bronx is Burning, Reggie Jackson

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Let the out-of-context buzz commence

October 7, 2013

Reggie Jackson is publishing his memoirs this fall (official release day tomorrow), so look for the most salacious excerpts to pop up in the press. To wit: the New York Mets were racist because they didn’t make him their No. 1 pick in the 1966 draft. This is not necessarily a new accusation. George Foster […]

Tagged as: Kevin Baker, Reggie Jackson

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Beach reading, continued

July 26, 2011 · 2 comments

Allen Barra, author of several notable baseball titles himself, offers this list of top five baseball fiction titles, including: Ring Around the Bases, by Ring Lardner Sometimes You See It Coming, by Kevin Baker The Brothers K, by David James Duncan Squeeze Play, by Jane Leavy (author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax: A […]

Tagged as: Allen Barra, Brothers K, Jane Leavy, Kevin Baker, Robert Coover

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* RK author profile: Kevin Baker

August 12, 2008

It’s been a long time between baseball themes, but Kevin Baker, author of the 1993 novel Sometimes You See It Coming, is back on track with a non-fiction volume about the national pastime in the Empire State. With the working title of The New York Game, Baker’s project is tentatively scheduled for a 2010 release […]

Tagged as: baseball fiction, Kevin Baker, New York baseball

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* Review: We are the Ship and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

June 24, 2008

Kevin Baker, author of Sometimes You See it Coming, did this review of two books about the Negro Leagues targeted for younger readers in the June 15 issue of the NY Times‘ Sunday book section. I never realized this was the same Baker that wrote the very entertaining historical fiction Paradise Alley, about the violent […]

Tagged as: Kevin Baker, Negro Leagues, Satchel Paige, We Are The Ship

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