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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:
Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, by Marty Appel
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
So far, so: funny and depressing
What I just read:
Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress by Katz et al. A gorgeous, fun book
Grade: A
Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home, by Gary Moore
I hate to say anything bad abut the story of a member of the Greatest Generation whose war-related injury prevented was what supposedly would have been a brilliant career, and I applaud the author -- the subject's son -- for the affectionate effort, but this was way too sentimental and cliche-ridden; this would have been an appropriate release 60 years ago.
Grade: A for the motivation, D for the presentation.
What's next:
Open, by Andre Agassi

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