Baseball features include:
Meissner recently published his new novel, Spirits in the Grass,
“…the fictional story of Luke Tanner, a 30-something baseball player helping build a new baseball field in his small hometown of Clearwater, Wis.
“His discovery of a small bone fragment on the field sets in motion a series of discoveries and cover-ups that involve his neighbors, local politicians and the nearby American Indian reservation.”
More from the publisher, University of Notre Dame Press.
The Chicago Post-Tribune ran this feature on the author of several White Sox books, including Chicago White Sox: 1959 and Beyond and South Side Hitmen: The Story of the 1977 Chicago White Sox.
Keep your sunny side up, up!
Hide the side that gets blue.
If you have nine sons in a row,
Baseball teams make money, you know!Keep You’re Sunny Side Up
With your kind indulgence. Ahem…:
The deed is done, the Marlins won.
The Mets again have lost.
Their fans are sad, feel they’ve been had,
that they’ve been double crossed.
The Mets brass said, “We’ll win!” Instead
another season’s wasted.
The bullpen’s ***t, they let them hit,
and bitter defeat was tasted.
I’m getting too old, if I may be bold,
To spend so much emotion,
with so little returned, repeatedly burned.
Goodbye, Mets. You’ve lost my devotion.
Yet I know next year, I’ll come back to cheer.
And give them “just one more chance.”
And indeed if I do, I’m hoping that you
Will give me a swift kick in the pants.
Paul Newman has died at the age of 83.
The blue-eyed heartthrob was one of those lucky performers able to enjoy his craft for decades.
Newman appeared in Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly which was a production of the U.S. Steel Hour.
You can watch the program here:
To paraphrase chopper pilot Frank Lapidus on Lost.
A front-page story in today’s New York Times reports how airplanes pilots use Shea Stadium as a landmark.
Hope they’ll still be able to find their way.
Amazing where you’ll find empty bags from chips and whatnot.
Wise Cheese Doodles, for example, right there on the bookshelf. Next to the bottle of Sprite. Sorry, honey. I’ll take care of that right away.
I only got it because Jose Reyes is on the bag. (The depiction of Reyes is horrible (right), yet I cannot look away.)
ESPN offers this interesting insight for The Magazine’s baseball editors on their thoughts for feature stories that ran during 2008.
Among the top items:
More recapping of the (yet-to-be-completed) 2008 baseball season? Here ya go.
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After a lengthy absence, baseball takes its rightful place on the cover with a story about Wrigley Field.
Other baseball items include:
That’s right, there are none.
Wives of the Detroit Tigers baseball players have written The ABCs of Detroit Tigers Baseball, a children’s book that covers the game of baseball from A to Z. The book is illustrated by Bryan Durren and Craig Jablonski, two graphic designers from Ilitch-owned Little Caesars. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book benefits the Detroit Tigers Foundation, the official charity of the Detroit Tigers.
Read the rest here.
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
So far, so: funny and depressing
AND
MUZZY FIELD: TALES FROM A FORGOTTEN BALLPARK
So far, so: good. A nice piece of Americana.
AND
The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie
So far, so: sad and uplifting at the same time.
What I just read: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Grade: A-.
What's next: Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain
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