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Maury Allen and Fritz Peterson: Together again for the first time
Veteran sportswriter Maury Allen was among the crowd at the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls, NJ for an author appearance/book-signing by former Yankees pitcher Fritz Peterson.
The ex-big-leaguer, who made headlines back in 1973 when he and teammate Mike Kekich traded families, was on hand to promote his new book, Mickey Mantle is Going to [...]
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
Tennis movie, anyone?
In celebration of Wimbledon, the Jewish Museum of Florida will host two screenings of A Perfect Match on June 28 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. The documentary tells the story of Althea Gibson, an African-American from Harlem, and Angela Buxton, a Jewish girl from London, who overcame racial and religious intolerance to win the [...]
Author calls baseball stance on steroids hypocritical
The cover of Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and The Inside Story of The Baseball Hall of Fame (Bloomsbury) features four circa 1920 players with their heads cropped off. How appropriate, since a lot of what Zev Chafets has to say turns conventional wisdom on its head.
Chafets, the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report and [...]
Ledger legend captures 58 years in 200 pages
One of Jerry Izenberg’s upcoming projects is a book about the death of the newspaper industry. He’ll write that one from personal experience: Izenberg, who has been with The Star-Ledger for almost 50 years, gave up his position as a regular sports columnist in 2006 to take the self-created post of “columnist emeritus.”
So just what [...]
Baseball no field of dreams for female athletes
When it comes to the national pastime, female athletes find many doors closed despite laws designed to afford them equal opportunities.
Marilyn Cohen chronicles these issues in her new book, No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball (McFarland).
Although girls and women have played the game since the mid-19th century, their participation has [...]
The joy of sections
One of the major complaints from fans and (especially) non-fans is that the games take too long.
Don’t look at it as a lot of down time; instead perceive it as a chance to catch up on your reading.
That’s why I love compilations such as those published by The Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell and Roger Angell, [...]
Nice work if you can get it
According to an item in Sports Business Journal, Bud Selig is the highest paid sports commissioner, pulling in over $18 million during fiscal year 2007. That’s a 22 percent increase from the previous year.
The PTI wags wondered if this figure was appropriate and decided it was, since baseball set an all-time attendance high. But what [...]
“But I will defend to the death….Wait, never mind.
In light of Joe Torre’s new book, the Yankees are considering a non-disparagement clause in their employee contracts.
According to a Newsday article by Wallace Mathews, “The Yankees are said to feel betrayed by Torre’s book, which has been interpreted as critical of some players, most notably Alex Rodriguez, and inaccurate in its recounting of the [...]
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, [...]
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