SubscribeA Times-ly review
Marc Tracy of Tablet.com contributed four mini-reviews for the NY Times Sunday book supplement on June 5 covering Shawn Green’s The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH. Upshot: “Those who do not share Green’s earnestness — or fondness for “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” “Siddhartha” and other namedropped works of dormitory [...]
Shawn Green makes the book tour rounds
The ex-major leaguer will be discussing his new book, The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 mph (See all Personal Transformation Books) at a couple of venues in the New York area over the next week or so. On Monday, June 6, Green will be at Book Revue in Huntington, NY at 7 p.m. Call [...]
People of the books
A quick look at two new baseball titles
The generations of Jewish baseball
Something for every generation in new books about JMLs.
Happy birthday, Shawn Green
One of the best JMLs of all-time, Green turns 38 today; why isn’t he still playing (compared with some of these other current-day old-timers)? Green averaged 27 home runs and 89 RBIs over his 15-year career with the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets. His best season came with [...]
People of the book, 2011
People of the (baseball) books.
Today in Jewish sports
This date in Jewish sports: Shawn Green
What am I doing here?
At the risk of blowing my own horn, I wanted to say that my essays on Shawn Green, Hank Greenberg, and Sandy Koufax are included in the recently-released Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture, edited by Jack. R. Fischel with Susan M. Ortmann (Greenwood Press). I’m kvelling.
Hebrew homer trivia
Did you know: Hank Greenberg’s 206 home runs were the seventh-most from 1930-39. On Aug. 12, 1966, Art Shamsky hit two extra-inning round-trippers in the same game, a 14-11 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Shawn Green is one of only 15 batters to hit four home runs in one game. He accomplished this rarity on [...]
Birthday greetings
Shawn Green, former Blue Jay, Dodger, Diamondback, and Met, turns 36 today. It’s a bit early to tell, but could Green be the last of the high-level Jewish players to concern himself with playing on the High Holy Days? The first and foremost, of course, was Hank Greenberg. A generation later, it was Sandy Koufax, [...]
