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St. Louis Cardinals

* Review: The Gashouse Gang

January 4, 2010

How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series – and America’s Heart, by John Heidenry. An odd inclusion (posted Jan. 2) for something so august as The Huffington Post (does this mean there’s hope for my work appearing there?), especially since the book came […]

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From the Cardinal-centric blog, The Cardinal Nation. Upshot: [Author Doug] Feldmann’s passion and knowledge of Cardinals baseball really comes through. His parents grew up in St. Louis and southern Illinois respectively, so he appreciates the regional breadth and success of the franchise.

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According to an item in Publishers Weekly daily email, there will be a new sports-heavy imprint launching this spring. MVP Books, an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, will specialize in “distinctive, high-quality books for the sports enthusiast,” with both illustrated coffeetable books and narrative nonfiction in a hardcover format. The MVP titles to hit the […]

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* Baseball in mental floss

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 […]

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Lest we forget: Bob Howsam

February 19, 2008

The former general manager of the Cincinnati Reds of the Big Red Machine era, died at the age of 89. Howsam was also GM for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1964-66, right before the team won back-to-back pennants.

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