The Hall of Fame catcher (and my Montclair “neighbor”) was born this date in 1925. Ain’t it amazing how many books by/about him — on basically the same stuff — there are, including, but not limited to:
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Baseball, books on language, and Roy Blount, Jr. So how cool is it to combine all three? The sportswriter and frequent panelist on one of my favorite NPR programs, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me (so make that four things, by extension), recently published Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: […]
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That’s Barra, not Berra, although the confusion would be easy to understand. Barra is the author, Berra is the subject of this new biography of the Yankees’ Hall of Fame catcher. The writer — whose work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and on-line on Salon.com, crafted this serious-yet-entertaining profile on […]
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King Kaufman conducted this Q&A with the new Berra Boswell. You can read it here or hear it here: http://media.salon.com/media/mp3/2009/03/conversations_barra.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Reading Barra’s Berra bio and came across mention of Yogi and several teammates appearing on an episode of Sgt. Bilko, starring Phil Silvers. Here’s a synposis from IMDB.com Bilko’s Company B gets beaten at Baseball by the WACs and with a big game against Ritzik and Grover coming up he is in dire need of […]
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The Sunday book section also featured this review of Allan Barra’s Berra book (I never get tired of writing that), by Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning. Barra has assumed a different task from that of the average biographer, who is concerned, foremost, with tracing the arc of a life. […]
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The San Francisco Chronicle (are they still around? It’s hard to keep track.) published this review of the new Barra Berra book. Upshot: I was struck reading Allen Barra’s altogether sturdy and well-written biography at just how unusual a figure Yogi truly is. Barra (no relation, he thinks), an amiable, guys-talking-at-the-water-cooler type sportswriter best known […]
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The Washington Post‘s Steven V. Roberts wrote this review of Allen Barra’s new bio of the Yogster. I wonder how many that makes now. Of course, Berra was on a couple of other teams, but that went by the wayside. Barra is an interesting writer. One of his titles on my to-read list is the […]
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from the Rio Rancho Observer.
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From a press release from the publisher: You Can Learn a Lot by Watching: What I’ve Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life by Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan (John Wiley & Sons) What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture […]
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The Wall Street Journal also ran this review by Pete Hausler of the new bio on the Yog by Carlo Devito. In sifting through [more than 4,000 sources], Mr. DeVito makes what seems initially like a strange choice: He includes many stories, anecdotes, and quotes that are now widely considered to be apocryphal (his word). […]
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From The New York Times, Dec. 31 “Dusenberry was born on April 28, 1936, in Brooklyn, the eldest child of a cab driver. He attended Emory & Henry College, in Virginia, on a baseball scholarship, but he dropped out after the athletic program and his scholarship were discontinued….” “Mr. Dusenberry also dabbled in the film […]
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The Natural,
Yogi Berra
is available on Amazon.com,
* A few of my favorite things
August 12, 2009
Baseball, books on language, and Roy Blount, Jr. So how cool is it to combine all three? The sportswriter and frequent panelist on one of my favorite NPR programs, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me (so make that four things, by extension), recently published Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: […]
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