Bits and Pieces, January 7, 2025

Although we may be at opposite ends of the political spectrum, George F. Will and I agree on one thing, “Baseball is wonderful,” as expressed in this opinion piece in the Washington Post by none other than Ken Burns, who used Will — among many others — as talking heads on his seminal Baseball miniseries. Will, of course, wrote on the the greatest analyses of the game with his 1990 masterpiece, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball.
Brooks Robinson, Hall of Famer… and copy editor? Apparently so.
In this contentious period of book banning and revisionist history, I found this piece — “Baseball’s Hall of Fame makes me feel weird” — by Zac Zwaschka of the Madison (SD) Daily Leader — quite pertinent.
Scott Longert, author of Love and Loss: The Short Life of Ray Chapman, will speak at the Speak at Daviess County Public Library on Monday, January 11.
Former Fox Sports North host Robby Incmikoski, who left the station for a job in Pittsburgh, is now adding the title of writer/author to his resume. Incmikoski announced that in the year since he was let go by the NESN network, he will be releasing a baseball coffee table book about his adventures across Major League Baseball.

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