Bits and pieces, December 6, 2022

December 6, 2022

♦  Several baseball titles are mentioned in this list of 2022 sports books — most with a local angle — posted by Cleveland.com including

♦  Speaking of Cleveland, there’s a new documentary ostensibly based on Mike Sowell’s book about the death of Indians’ shortstop Ray Chapman, The Pitch That Killed. From what I’ve seen of it so far, it’s more about the rivalry between the blue-collar Clevelanders and entitled New Yorkers. War on the Diamond is now streaming on services like Amazon, Google, and YouTube.

♦  Would love to see a baseball novel by Haruki Murakami, since he’s such a fan of the game.

♦  American Songwriter posted this about “The Story Behind the Baseball Classic ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’.” The seventh-inning stretch standard has been used in the title for lots books but as far as I know there are only two that deal with the tune itself: Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song by Amy Wharf McGuiggan and Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” by Robert Thompson, Tim Wiles, and Andy Strassberg.

♦  Remember when I marveled that a book about college baseball would be on the Amazon Baseball Best-Seller list? Here’s a story on that from the Mississippi Today website.

♦  From SpotlightNews.com, a piece about Jean Fruth’s two coffee table books (just in time for the holidays), Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin and Grassroots Baseball: Route 66. Here’s my Bookshelf Conversation with Fruth.

♦  Some 30 years later, Dan Kennedy posted this review of Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary.

 

 

 

 

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