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Last year it was baseball as veteran sports photographer Neil Leifer published Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball (Taschen), a hefty limited-edition coffee table book festooned with gorgeous snapshots from the 1950s and 60s. It had a list price of $400, but some souped-up copies went for as much as $700; a [...]
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 a more reasonable [...]
Friedman was then, Olshansky is now
In addition to the article on the new Benny Friedman bio, Nextboo also published this profile on Igor Olshansky, a 6″6″, 309 pound defensive end for the San Diego Chargers. The Ukraine-born Olshansky admits, “I know Jewish people take pride in me, and I’m comfortable with that. But I don’t consider myself religious…. I play [...]
More on Benny Friedman
From Nextbook.org, this interview with Murray Greenberg, author of the new biography, Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football. Some excerpts: Was Friedman part of a large Jewish contingent in football or an anomaly? It’s sort of both. The distinction lies in college versus the pros. There were a fair number of Jewish [...]
On this date: October 29
1933 – Benny Friedman throws a 9-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter to give the Brooklyn (football) Dodgers a 7-0 victory over the Chicago Cardinals. 2000 – Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler begins a streak of 92 consecutive passes without an interception, spanning five full games 2007 – QB Sage Rosenfels of the Houston [...]
