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Baseball Talmud author on the Mets sorry season.
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
Author appearance: Howard Megdal
Oceanside, NY- The Friedberg JCC is hosting “The Baseball Talmud” on
Thursday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. Join author and radio personality
Howard Megdal as he discusses his new book, “The Baseball Talmud,” a
historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. Cost
is $6. For more information, please call (516) 634-4154 or e-mail
mlevi [at] friedbergjcc.org.
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 [...]
Coming (relatively) soon to a bookstore (perhaps) near you
Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud, is taking his book and going on the road. Here’s a list of his whistle stops as of today:
Sunday April 5, 2 p.m. Borders, Ramsey, NJ
Tuesday April 7, 7 p.m. Suffern Free Library, Suffern, NY
Thursday April 16, 7 p.m., Book Revue, Huntington, NY
Sunday April 26, 9 a.m. Temple [...]
Now hear this: Howard Megdal, baseball Talmudist
Awhile back I posted a story about Howard Megdal, baseball writer for the New York Observer and author of the forthcoming book, The Baseball Talmud.
Trying to add a new wrinkle to the blog, I’m posting the audio interview on which the article was based. If it works, look for more in the future. Bear in [...]
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.
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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