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Hall of Fame hosts summer author series

June 15, 2015

The Baseball Hall of Fame will host 11 Authors Series events throughout the season, bringing noted baseball authors to Cooperstown for special lectures and book signings. Among the highlights of the 2015 Authors Series is an appearance by former major league pitcher Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese-born player in the history of major league baseball. […]

Tagged as: Babe Ruth, Billy Martin, Boston Red Sox, Ed Lucas, Masanori Murakami, Tony Oliva, Who's Who in baseball

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Busy, busy, busy

April 7, 2015

I miss you guys. It’s just been so darned busy around here lately that I haven’t had time to write. The final edits of my new book are due on Friday. I also have to work on a two-minute pitch for the Jewish Book Council which will hopefully generate interest for author appearances at JCCs, […]

Tagged as: ballpark food, Glenn Burke, John Paciorek, Mike Matheny, Tom Hoffarth, Tommy Lasorda, Who's Who in baseball

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Bits and pieces, March 16

March 16, 2015

Curt Smith, author of several fine volumes about baseball broadcasters and broadcasting, offers this nostalgic essay on “Spring training: Baseball’s Brigadoon” in the Irondequoit Post. Publishers Weekly published their annual list of new baseball topics. Unfortunately, it’s only available to subscribers. I’ll see if I can find an end-around at some point. “Spring inevitably means […]

Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, Curt Smith, Joe Black, John Klima, Mark Simon, Nolan Ryan, NY Mets, Rob Goldman, Sandy Alderson, Steve Kettmann, Who's Who in baseball

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Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 23, 2015

January 23, 2015

  Note: Just like Chuck Lorre’s “vanity cards” at the end of The Big Bang Theory, you should read these list stories to their conclusion; the end is always changing, even though the theme is basically the same, finishing up with a self-promotional message. So without further ado, here are the top ten baseball books […]

Tagged as: Baseball America, baseball fiction, Baseball Prospectus, Bernard Malamud, Bill James, Derek Jeter, Fantasy baseball, Who's Who in baseball

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Bookshelf review: 100 Years of Who’s Who in Baseball

January 20, 2015

By Douglas B. Lyons. The Lyons Press. 216 Pages. $24.95 To be fair, how do you write a book about a book that’s essentially about tables of numbers? That’s the challenge Lyons picks up in 100 Years of Who’s Who in Baseball.  While it’s fun to look at each of the covers, dating back to […]

Tagged as: Douglas Lyons, Marty Appel, Who's Who in baseball

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* Who's Who haiku

September 17, 2009

Very small pictures. Records major and minor. DL data, too. (Most lines are either “filed for free agency” or “on disabled list…”) Jeter gets a page (post-season states included); Ben Zobrist comes last. Pitchers and batters — position segregation — split the book in two. Nowhere else can one find such great information, so thank […]

Tagged as: register, statistics, Who's Who in baseball

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