Dodging the draft

Posted by Ron Kaplan on June 25, 2010 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Feeling a draft. Or not.

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Mayo on dearth of Jewish candidates for Baseball Hall

Posted by Ron Kaplan on February 2, 2010 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Mayo knows.

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A landsman online

Posted by Ron Kaplan on September 11, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Baseball writer Jonathan Mayo talks about baseball’s September call-ups.

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It takes a lot of threads to make a suit

Posted by Ron Kaplan on August 28, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

A profile on Len Levy, coach for the 1960 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Required reading

Posted by Ron Kaplan on May 12, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Our friend Jonathan Mayo contributed this review/author profile of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America, as did our other friend, Stan Hochman of the Philadelphia Daily News. Have you ever thought about the veteran minor league player, the one who has no longer has a realistic chance of making [...]

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