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Stein, for the prosecution
Former NFLer Bob Stein finds a new fight on the legal gridiron.
And birthday greetings to Arnold Roth
One of the legendary illustrators turns 80 on Wednesday.
Roth is instantly recognizable to anyone who’s ever passed a newsstand. His work has appeared in dozens of magazine over the years, from The New Yorker to Playboy to Scientific America, to name but a few. Most recently, his Oscar-themed picture graced the cover of The Sunday [...]
All I want for Hanukka is…
I asked some Jewish sports personalities what was on their wish list this year:
“A definitive spelling of Hanukka…Hanukkah…Chanukah…Argh!”
— Jonah Keri, author of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
“More hours in the day.”
— Cleveland Browns guard Lennie Friedman (Which was a repeated theme)
“More time in the day,”
— Linda Cohn, [...]
Psst, got an extra $500 you’re not doing anything with?
Last year, photographer Neil Leifer published Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball (Taschen), a gorgeous limited-edition coffee table book with a list price of $400. Some copies, in fact, went for as much as $700, but a much more democratic, paperback edition was released a few months ago for [...]
Field of Life, Fields of Dreams
Earlier this year I did a story on artist Dov Abramson and his rendering of the Kabala’s “Field of Life” in a baseball idiom. He equated the 10 “sefirot” with positions on a balfield (plus one for the first base umpire).
This is the “original” design:
Compare that with this essay by Reb Reuven Goldfarb.
The major [...]
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