Award season continues! From the organization’s press release: SABR is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game’s great researchers — historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists — for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past. The 2019 recipients of […]
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Leonard Koppett,
Rob Neyer,
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There’s a line in the film version of The Natural in which the following exchange occurs between Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) and the unctuous sportswriter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall): Hobbs: Did you ever play ball, Max? Mercy: No, never have. But I make it a little more fun to watch, you see. And after today, […]
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Dan Daniel,
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Murray Chass,
Shirly Povich
Larry Stone offers his list … and then some… of his favorite baseball bookss in his Seattle Times column, Hot Stone League (cute). No. 1 is Bouton’s Ball Four. but is No. 1 (addendum) is Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, by Jane Leavy. No. 2 on the addenda is a book I don’t think gets nearly […]
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My heroes have always been writers
September 24, 2013 · 1 comment
There’s a line in the film version of The Natural in which the following exchange occurs between Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) and the unctuous sportswriter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall): Hobbs: Did you ever play ball, Max? Mercy: No, never have. But I make it a little more fun to watch, you see. And after today, […]
Tagged as: Dan Daniel, Leonard Koppett, Murray Chass, Shirly Povich
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