♦ Bailey’s Baseball Book Reviews posted this one on Grisham’s Calico Joe. Upshot: “We’ve now had baseball tales from two of the literary world’s heavyweights in the past three years. Both have failed to live up to expectations.” [The other one is Stephen King’s novella, Blockade Billy.] ♦ Bailey also offers this on Just a […]
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The two small publishing houses that comprise most of the high-brow literature about the National pastime both got a little love recently. David Davis wrote this nice company profile in The New York Times on the University of Nebraska Press, which will be putting out my 501 book next year (God willing). Rob Neyer over […]
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(Kids, ask your parents/grandparents.) Rob Neyer, baseball expert and cinemaphile, noted on SB Nation that Sunday would have been William Frawley‘s 125th birthday. Frawley, a hard-core baseball fan, is perhaps best known for his role as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy (and later My Three Sons), but he was a veteran actor dating back […]
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Now that Moneyball is out on DVD/Blue-Ray/etc., look for a new round of reviews on the film. Here are two to get you started. The first comes from Over The Monster, a Red Sox-centric blog. The second is a “live-blog” post by Rob Neyer at Baseball Nation. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I’ve never […]
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Well, in this case, it’s The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, by Jonah Keri. Keri, who published the excellent Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong in 2006, took a in-depth look at inner workings of the Tampa […]
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After 15 years at ESPN, Rob Neyer is moving on to SB Nation. Neyer and I have exchanged occasional emails over the last few years, but I do not know him personally, so I can;t say if he’s being self-effacing when he makes note of his career change in a “oh, by the way” manner […]
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Apropos to the previous entry, we might have a Rob Neyer moment here. In the snippet, Redford claims to have been in New York where he attended a Yankees-Red Sox game. He mentions that Maris and Mantle were in the lineup, but not Williams. He doesn’t give a date, but it had to have been […]
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A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit, by Matt McCarthy (Viking) When I first read Odd Man Out, I thought it was the best book of its kind I had seen in many years. Too many “flavor of the month,” riding the high from a World Series win at best or a […]
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Another look at the new classic on shooting down baseball myths, by The Joy of Sox blog. Upshot: For those of you thinking “Who cares?” or “Why ruin a good story?”, stay away from this book. But if you’re as curious as I am about how Neyer went about his investigations and when he found […]
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In keeping with the policy NPR seems to have about replaying its best bits during the week between Christmas and New Years, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, hosted by Peter Sagal, featured a few prominent guests from the “Not My Job” segment, including Sen. George McGovern, Leonard Nimoy, Garrison Keillor, Jimmy Carter of the singing […]
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From the Baseball in Great Britain blog, this review of the latest Neyer edition. Upshot: Neyer may state that this book “isn’t for everybody”, so who is it for? Well, any baseball fan with an inquisitive mind and/or an interest in history will be constantly dipping into it to read another chapter. And anyone who […]
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In this Allen Barra piece that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal, Rob Neyer wodners why the sue of instant rplay should be limited to home run calls? [The] author of “The Big Book of Baseball Blunders,” asks: “Why can’t umpires use replay in calling safe or out? Official scorers already use it to decide […]
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from the Detroit Tigers podcast. http://media.libsyn.com/media/detroittigerspodcast/DTP-49.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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I culled this entry from an article on Sportingnews.com about “The Biggest Liars in Sports History”: 9. JOE MORGAN Joe’s Truth: ESPN’s top baseball talking head gave us some baseball history when he beat Philadelphia with a RBI single in his 1964 Major League Baseball debut. His hit (he told us) extended the Colt 45’s […]
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A few more links to interviews with/features on Rob Neyer, author of the eponymous Big Book of Baseball Legends. From Viva ElBirdos, a Q&A And another from one of my favorites, The Baseball Analysts
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Neyer’s latest is the subject of many glowing reviews, including: From Ducksnorts, a Padres-based blog, “I’m struck by three elements of Neyer’s work: how thorough his research is, how tightly the book’s layout integrates with its content, and how much he enjoys these stories even as he attempts to debunk them.” From River Ave. Blues, […]
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Rob Neyer: My idol and my curse
February 2, 2011
After 15 years at ESPN, Rob Neyer is moving on to SB Nation. Neyer and I have exchanged occasional emails over the last few years, but I do not know him personally, so I can;t say if he’s being self-effacing when he makes note of his career change in a “oh, by the way” manner […]
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