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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Welcome to 2019. I hope y’all had a great holiday season. “Pitchers and catchers” are still more than a month away, so I hope this list of forthcoming books will serve as a source of warmth and comfort until then. We seem to have the requisite number of material about former stars such as Jackie […]
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Jackie Robinsoin,
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New York Yankees,
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Luis Tiant turns 70 today. I’m surprised, I thought he was 70 back in the 70s. :: crickets :: Anyway… He collaborated with Ed Fitzgerald in his 1976 “memoirgraphy,” El Tiante, the Luis Tiant Story.
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This time in the form of a new documentary about Luis Tiant. The Boston Globe published this piece today about The Lost Son of Havana. Upshot: The movie, scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 23 and to open in New England at the Boston Independent Film Festival April 25, […]
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