Jewish authors and sportswriters

Take dad to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for Father’s Day

Take dad to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for Father’s Day

Nets not get nuts over Mushnick column

Nets not get nuts over Mushnick column.

Shameless self-promotion: Hofstra University celebrates the Mets

The Mets are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. One of the key events marking the occasion is a three-day conference at Hofstra University and it will be my pleasure to moderate a panel of three landsmen at an authors roundtable. The gentlemen include: ♦ John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball and [...]

More on the ‘Judaism and Baseball’ retreat

Josh Platt posted this preview on the Jewish Sports Collectible site of the three-day “Judaism and Baseball” program hosted by the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center at the end of June.

How to spend (part of) your summer vacation

How to spend (part of) your summer vacation.

Two-fer in the Garden State

Two-fer in the Garden State: Harvey Araton and Ian Eagle

Harvey Araton on baseball friendship

Another book about Yogi Berra? Yup, and one that shouldn’t be missed. Harvey Araton published Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball’s Greatest Gift as an extension of a column he had written for The New York Times last year, about the annual ritual in which the former Yankee ace would pick up [...]

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

What hath Braun wrought? (updated)

I asked a few of my Jewish sports acquaintances for their takes on the Ryan Braun situation. Here are their responses. * Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud and the forthcoming Wilpon’s Folly: “If it turns out that Ryan Braun did take an illegal substance, it’s unquestionably bad for the Jews. Not Bernie Madoff [...]