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Literary birthday greetings: Gil Hodges, the Golden Eagle, the Goat, and Superjew

April 4, 2011

Gil Hodges was born this date in 1924. While compiling my list of books about Hall of Famers, I couldn’t help but ask why some of these guys were in while someone like Hodges was out. Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family’s Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, […]

Tagged as: Gil Hodges, Mickey Owen, Mike Epstein, Thomas Oliphant, Tris Speaker

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* Not quite a review: Sid Dorfman on Tris Speaker

June 5, 2008

Tris who? Sid Dorfman laments the anonymity that has befallen Hall of Fame outfielder Tris Speaker, who was the centerfielder before Mantle and Mays came along. Dorfman is a local legend here in Jersey. He’s been writing for the Newark Star-Ledger for more than 70 years, our version of The Washington Post’s Shirley Povich. There’s […]

Tagged as: Charles Alexander, Shirley Povich, Sid Dorfman, Tony Kornheiser, Tris Speaker

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