Andrew Forbes is out with a new book: Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. If it’s anything like his last book, it will be quite thought-provoking. Another Bookshelf Conversation is in the offing.
The New Yorker‘s “Sporting Scene” section takes up the issue of the Yankees’ new torpedo bats.
Peter Drier offers this piece about the LA Dodgers’ recent visit to the white house, the anti-DEI movement, and Jackie Robinson, a topic I have addressed in a separate entry.
From WFMZ, “‘A fascinating history’: Local author reflects on 75 years of Reading baseball stadium.” That is, Charlie Adams’ Baseball in Reading.
Kaitlyn Tiffany asks “Why Aren’t Women Allowed to Play Baseball?” in a recent issue of The Atlantic. It’s about women at Yankees fantasy camp. In 2009 I wrote a story for the New Jersey Jewish News about a program developed for observant Jewish campers, one of whom was the lone woman who attended.
They paved Reggie Jackson’s childhood home and put up a parking lot. Perhaps you can swing by there and grab some bits and pieces as a souvenir.
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