Bits and Pieces

• From Men’s Vogue, this review of Ballet in the Dirt, the pricey photography book by Neil Leifer.
• Another Leifer feature appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
• The Washington Post ran this review on the new biography on Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural, generally considered the first “adult” baseball fiction.
• Itsaboutthemoney, a blog “celebrating the hypocrisy in sports,” offers this essay abut Moneyball and the generation of new stats (and statheads) it engendered.