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Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
July 23, 2020

Book Review/Interview: The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search Of Baseball's Afterlife, By Brad Balukjian

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The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search Of Baseball's Afterlife By Brad Balukjian (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) In Septembe...
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April 21, 2020

Review: Conspiracy Of Silence: Sportswriters And The Long Campaign To Desegregate Baseball, by Chris Lamb

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[Draft Post: November 1, 2014 An Unfinished Book Review] Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson's 1947 de...
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December 23, 2019

Book Review: Power Ball: Anatomy Of A Modern Baseball Game, By Rob Neyer

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I've enjoyed and been impressed by Rob Neyer's writing for over 20 years. I was extremely jealous of him back in 1999 when he spen...
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July 11, 2019

Jim Bouton (1939-2019) And The Lasting Impact Of "Ball Four"

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Jim Bouton, a former major league pitcher and a proudly liberal thinker in a sport dominated by ignorant conservatives, died on Wednesday at...
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June 3, 2019

Book Review: "Waiting For Pumpsie", By Barry Wittenstein (Illustrated By London Ladd)

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Waiting For Pumpsie By Barry Wittenstein Illustrated by London Ladd (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2017) Bernard is a young baseball fan ...
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June 18, 2018

Bill James: Popular Crime: Reflections On The Celebration Of Violence (2011)

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In September 2017, I posted about a forthcoming book from Bill James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer My...