baseball books

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

Memories of the Israel Baseball League

Memories of the Israel Baseball League: A Q&A with Aaron Pribble

Now see this: Shawn Green

Shawn Green talks about his book.

Book review: Pitching in the Promised Land

Book review: Pitching in the Promised Land

Shawn Green: MOT’s latest baseball ambassador

Shawn Green: MOT’s latest baseball ambassador