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Mazel tov, Shelley Sommer
Mazel tov, Shelley Sommer, a winner of the Sydney Taylor Silver Book Award for her biography of Hank Greenberg.
People of the book: The Chosen
People of the book: “The Chosen”
‘Tis the season: Sports books make fine gifts
‘Tis the season: Sports books make fine gifts
Tov for Amar’e
“Tov” for Amar’e
Baseball book club news: Jane Leavy
Baseball book club news: Jane Leavy
Moneyball and Israel: Three degrees of separation
“Moneyball” and Israel: three degrees of separation
Baseball “tripleheader” at Atlanta JCC this weekend
Former JML Shawn Green, Israel Baseball League pitcher Aaron Pribble, and MLB official historian John Thorn will be the featured guests as the Marcus Jewish Community Center book fair on Sunday, Nov. 13. From the press release: Introduction by Stan Kasten, former President of the Atlanta Braves and Thrashers. The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness [...]
People of the book (or something like that)
People of the book (or something like that)
Now read this: Review of new Greenberg bio
The Jewish Review of Books (shouldn’t that be Review of Jewish Books?) ran this review of Mark Kurlansky’s recent biography, Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One. The piece begins with a reference to Mark Helprin’s short story, “Perfection,” which “re-imagined Bernard Malamud’s “Natural” as an adolescent Holocaust survivor whose otherworldly ability [...]
Korner review: Beaverball
Book Review: Beaverball: A (Winning) Season With the MIT Baseball Team
