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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
What I'm reading now:
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between, by Catchcart and Klein
Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend, by John Klima.
What I just read:
American on Purpose, by Craig Freguson
Grade: C.
What's next:
L'Époque Glorieuse des Expos, by Alain Usereau
Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their favorite Baseball Players of all Time, edited by Sean Manning
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
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My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in

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