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Book Review: Step Up to the Plate
Book on “baseball” and Judaism misses the mark.
Writer brings old hero to a new generation
New book introduces Sandy Koufax to a new generation of fans.
Required Reading: Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter
The 2006 biography by Douglas Century is now out in paperback.
National Pastime Radio
Also known as NPR.
A good day for Jewish sports authors on WNYC recently. Both Howard Megdal (The Baseball Talmud) and Lee Lowenfish (Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman) were interviewed on The Leonard Lopate Show.
You can listen to the Megdal segment here: Megdal
and the Lowenfish interview here:
Lowenfish
Baseball beach reading
Looking for some good beach reading? Try some of these baseball novels with Jewish themes or characters. A word of warning: some of these titles are long out of print, but you can find them on used book sites, such as Amazon.com.
I may be wrong, but I doubt you’ll find too much adult fiction about [...]
Author appearance: Howard Megdal
Hey, you KK readers in the Boston area: Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud, will be the guest speaker/signer at Boston University’s Hillel House tonight from 7-8:30 p.m. Mention my name — tell him Ron sent you. Not that it will do anything for you, I just always wanted to say that.
The Forward ran [...]
Book review: Passing Game
A review of Murray Greenberg’s biography on Benny Friedman appears in the Spting issue of Jewish Book World.
Mutual admiration society
The Jews in Baseball blog ran this entry on Howard Megdal’s upcoming book, The Baseball Talmud. Because we Jews have to stick together.
Author interview: Murray Greenberg
The Hugging Harrold Reynolds blog posted this interview with the author of Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football.
The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent ran this review of the book.
Holy baseball! New book ranks every Jewish Major Leaguer
In 2003, Martin Abramowitz created JewishMajorLeaguers.org with the “mission” to create a set of cards that included every “member of the tribe” to play big-league baseball.
To mix sports metaphors, Howard Megdal has taken this idea and run with it.
His new book, The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players, analyzes the performances [...]
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