Go, Giants! They get the cover story treatment from Tom Verducci (Giant Moment). But that’s it for awhile, I fear.
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November 4, 2010
Go, Giants! They get the cover story treatment from Tom Verducci (Giant Moment). But that’s it for awhile, I fear.
Tagged as: San Francisco Giants, Sports Illustrated, Tom Verducci, World Series
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Find any link you can, because goodness knows, if it’s not “about them,” they ain’t interested. Fox TV Blackout Tests Old Giants Fans’ Ingenuity Anything Can Happen in a San Francisco Series A First in Either San Francisco or Texas On the other hand, there’s a neat feature on World Series gloves through the years. […]
Tagged as: New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers
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Jason Turbow (The Baseball Code) and Dan Fost (Giants Past & Present) will appear at an authors’ talk on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. This could be interesting: They could chat about the Marichal-Roseboro incident. For more information, call650-321-0600 or visit booksinc.net.
Tagged as: baseball code, Dan Fost, Jason Turbow, San Francisco Giants
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April 11, 2010
Who says you can’t go home again? Bloomfield-born journalist Dan Fost returned to his old stomping grounds to give a talk and book-signing for his Giants Past & Present at the Yogi Berra Museum this afternoon. Fost, who grew up and still is a Yankees fan, became enamored with the team shortly after moving to […]
Tagged as: Dan Fost, New York Giants, San Francisco Giants
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April 7, 2010
by Dan Fost. MVP Books, 2010. A book such as Giants Past & Present caters to multiple readerships. On the one hand you have long-time fans of the team, both in the East and West Coast incarnations. You also have younger fans, who grew up on the San Francisco version. In addition, there are the […]
Tagged as: Dan Fost, New York Giants, San Francisco Giants
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April 5, 2010
Dan Fost, author of Giants Past & Present, posted this preseason video on his favorite team. A reminder, Fost will be at the Yogi Berra Museum on April 11 at 4 p.m. See here for further info. And thanks to all of you out there who became fans of The Bookshelf — the roll has […]
Tagged as: Dan Fost, New York Giants, San Francisco Giants
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October 13, 2008
A national pastime trifecta in the brainy magazine in the November/December issue. At this point, the citations refer to the print version only. Oakland As general manager Billy “Moneyball” Beane is hailed as one of “the new Einsteins” in a featured article. In an item about man’s best friend: “Portuguese water dogs…[have] been living up […]
Tagged as: Albert Einstein, Billy Beane, Bob Barker, mental floss, Oakland As, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Whitey Herzog
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
In Forbes Magazine re: Baseball Business Books
On Will Carroll’s “Under the Knife” substack
Updated 5/2/24
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, by Kevin Baker (via Bookreporter.com)
The Body Count, by Lincoln Michel
Calico Joe, by Robert Grisham
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments, by Joe Posnanski (via Bookreporter.com)
The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin’ New York Mets, by Ed Kranepool with Gary Kaschak
Most recent books read updated 5/2/24:
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, by Kevin Baker
Grade: A. Well-researched, well-written. What else could you ask for? Baker has a lot of street cred writing about New York as well, both in fiction and non-fiction.
The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
Grade: C. Perhaps the ultimate performance enhancers -- interchangeable body parts -- help major leaguers of the future. But, as with all of these things, there's a price to pay.
Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, by Josh Wilker
Grade: A. Re-read in preparation for a Bookshelf Conversation with the author. Had a deeper meaning than when I first read it more than a decade ago.
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My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
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