Mazel tov to Phil Rosenzweig whose One Splendid Season: Baseball and America in 1912, Told with the Words and Images of the Hassan Triplefolder Set won SABR’s Larry Ritter Award which honors “the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year.” You can read more about it from the SABR site. I had the pleasure of having Rosenzweig on for a Bookshelf Conversation.
Congrats also go to Scott D. Peterson, whose collection of stories — A Month of Game Days — received The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Fiction from The Twin Bill quarterly literary journal. Here’s another BC I had with Twin Bill founder Scott Bolohan.
LitHub.com posted this story/interview with Randal Sullivan, author of the new book, The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads.
The Athletic posted this article about Dusty Baker and his new memoir, Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life.
The Spencer Public Library (Iowa) will host local author Tim Grover on June 12 at 10 a.m. to discuss his 2023 release, Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger’s Bumpy Trek Across Small-Town America which documents the Sultan of Swat’s postseason Midwestern baseball tour in 1922.
Also on that day, author David Bohmer will be the guest speaker at the Community Learning Center in Kendalville, IN. Bohmer recently published Ford Frick: Baseball’s Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game. The event, with lunch provided, will begin at 11 a.m. The cost is $15. Sign up by calling the CLC at 260-544-3455.
Finally, Returning to kudos, Foreword Reviews (to which I used to contribute) has named the University of Nebraska Press as its Indie Publisher of the Year, recognizing the press for its publishing program and its commitment to independent and university press publishing. UNP — which released my own 501 way back in 2013 — is famous for baseball books that might be considered too eclectic for mainstream readership.
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One of those unicorns who never played in the minors, Bob Horner — Rookie of the Year in 1978 and an All-Star in 1982, mostly for the Atlanta Braves (1978-86) — died May 29 at the age of 68, which is terrifying to me because I’m older than that. 
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Normally I would listen to a podcast or some music on our outing. But this time I was reading an article in The New York Times. And I mean the print edition, not on the app. I was struck by a cover story in the arts section about Derek Klena, a Broadway actor who also 
Problem was, I was so engrossed in reading that I failed to notice a rather large rock in my path. The rock did not ignore me, however, causing me to fall and resulting in a sprained ankle and sizeable gash on my knee. I’ve learned my lesson.
I don’t know what made me think of it, but I wanted my Maypo.
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