This week’s episode of my favorite NPR program featuerd Jimmy Fallon on the “Not my job” segment. Sicne we just celebrated the 30th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, the topic was bad baseball promotions. Fallon should be an expert since he made a bad baseball movie (Fever Pitch).
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
Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
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
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
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