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Throwback Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 (aka, massive links dump)

January 28, 2016

Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]

Tagged as: baseball fiction, Chad Harbach, Harvey Araton, John Grisham, Mordecai Brown, New York Mets, no-hitter, Sandy Koufax, Sparky Anderson, Willard Mullin, World Series, Yogi Berra

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On the horizon: New baseball titles in ’13 (besides 501)

January 9, 2013

Besides my own book, there are some titles I’m really looking forward to this season. Among them: Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat was the Best Job on the Paper by Dennis D’Agostino The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age by Robert Weintraub Mickey […]

Tagged as: Allen Barra, Baseball during World War II, Doc Gooden, Filip Bondy, Ira Berkow, Mickey Mantle, Mike Piazza, New York Mets, Willard Mullin, Willie Mays

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Another “dying profession” / Baseball art

May 4, 2012

Sheesh, what’s going to be left? The New York Times sports media writer Richard Sandomir wrote this story about sports cartoonists joining the endangered species list last week. In my attic I have pages torn from the NY Daily News from 1969, when Bruce Stark drew a series of Mets, including Gil Hodges, Tom Seaver, […]

Tagged as: baseball art, Bruce Stark, Paul Lempa, Willard Mullin

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