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Mar 22, 2009 ... "You must always have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. Your self-confidence must be maintained. Always have an alibi. But keep it to yourself. That's where it belongs." CHRISTY MATHEWSON "No game in the world is as tidy and ...
Whatever happened to the marvelous importance of the unimportant? A plea for putting today's baseball and all-sports Mania in proper perspective.(ARTICLES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Keynote Speech to the Fifteenth Annual NINE Spring Training Conference, March 15, 2008 I was moved when one of Bill Kirwin's last acts as NINE conference organizer was to ask me to deliver this year's keynote address. We have heard so much about Bill this week, and I for one can ...
"A mirthful spectacle": race, blackface minstrelsy, and base ball, 1874-1888.
Mar 22, 2009; ... To sum up the [Blue Stocking vs. Pink Stocking] game in general, it need only be said that, saving the single item of color it was like other well-played games. One peculiarity, however, was noticeable, whether accidental or usual we don't know. It consisted in an irresistible propensity ...
A case of cultural forgetting: black newspapers' presentation of black baseball in 1932.
Mar 22, 2009; ... When Negro National League officials agreed to close operations for 1932 due to the hard realities of the Great Depression, the usually minor Negro Southern League and the newly-created East-West Colored League became black baseball's "major leagues." (1) Disillusionment with the Negro ...
Looking bad on paper, worse on film: portrayals of sports journalists in three classic baseball films.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Where there is baseball, there are sports journalists--a relationship that has evolved as the media and the sport have evolved. In some periods (the 1920s and 1930s, for example), baseball teams and local sports journalists worked together to promote the home team and its games. In other ...
Rings born of impulse: gift-exchange economies in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's the celebrant.
Mar 22, 2009; ... A number of critics of baseball literature place The Celebrant on the short list of the best baseball-themed fiction. Indeed, Eric Rolfe Greenberg's narrative of Jewish immigrant jeweler Yakov Kapinski's relationship with baseball and Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson, for whom he ...
Driven: branding Derek Jeter, redefining race.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Promoting the opening of the Museum of the City of New York's exhibit, "The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957," curator Ann Meyerson noted that for the first time since Jackie Robinson crossed the major league's color line in 1947, not a single African American player was likely to ...
I'm the king of the world? Barry Bonds and the "race" for the record.
Mar 22, 2009; ... It was inevitable--though not entirely welcomed--that as long as Barry Bonds remained healthy and pitchers threw pitches in the general vicinity of the strike zone, Bonds would break Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home run record. There were a few other certainties in the 2007 ...
Ben Harjo's all-Indian baseball club: personal reviews, op-ed pieces, and polemics from outside the purview of the umpires.(TRIPLE PLAY)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The story of Ben Harjo's All-Indian Baseball Club has never been told. A full-blood Creek, Harjo was born on October 8,1898, in Indian Territory near the city of Holdenville, now within the state of Oklahoma. (1) In his teenage years, Harjo attended Haskell Institute, an Indian boarding ...
Barnstorming, baseball, and bluegrass music.(Bill Monroe and baseball)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I'd have liked to be a baseball player. I love baseball. But you have to have good eyes to play baseball and my eyes never was good. I could hit good and could've been a good player. Bill Monroe In 1963, sportswriter Furman Bisher recalled that "There was a time in ...
Whither or whether the stolen base?
Mar 22, 2009; ... "The Book" is the canon of conventional wisdom on how to be successful in Major League Baseball. The Book is subject to revision, sometimes in radical ways. Nowhere is this more evident than in the deployment of the stolen base strategy. In recent times, stolen base strategy has come under ...
The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969.(The Yankees in the Early 1960s)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... William J. Ryczek. The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 278 pp. Paper, $29.95. William J. Ryczek. The Yankees in the Early 1960s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 257 pp. Paper, $29.95. In the introduction to The Yankees in the Early 1960s, ...
The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Richard Grossinger. The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext. Berkeley, CA: Frog, 2007. 250 pp. Paper, $16.95. In our postmodern era, the subject matter of baseball books has become far more diverse than ever before. Many are aimed at fans of high intellectual caliber, ...
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy.(Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Raymond Angelo Belliotti. Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 187 pp. Paper, $35.00. The preface of Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy asks, "Why am I here? What is my destiny? How should I live my ...
Anatomy of baseball.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lee Gutkind and Andrew Blauner, eds. Anatomy of Baseball. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2008. 232 pp. Cloth, $22.50. As contributor Stefan Fatsis puts it, this anthology is "about the gorgeous minutiae of baseball" (15), and as any fan of the game will attest, ...
The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Charlie Bevis. The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 309 pp. Paper, $29.95. Minor league histories traditionally focus on the players and pennant races. Recently, the best studies have shifted the emphasis to the owners, the ...
August "Garry" Herrmann: a baseball biography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... William A. Cook. August "Garry" Herrmann: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 303 pp. Paper, $29.95. Garry Herrmann was the president of the Cincinnati Reds from 1902 to 1927 and the president of the major leagues' governing body, the National Commission, from ...
"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... John A. Simpson. "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.282 pp. Paper, $29.95. For a baseball bugs (fans) interested in the sport's emergence in Dixie, John A. Simpson's monograph ...
Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, NC.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Rick Huhn. Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 364 pp. Paper, $35.00. Of those individuals elected to the Hall of Fame shortly after it opened, Eddie Collins was probably the least known to the general public. But to baseball insiders he was one ...
Swish Nicholson: A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Robert A. Greenberg. "Swish" Nicholson: A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 238 pp. Paper, $29.95. He was another of the baseball greats to emerge from Maryland's Eastern Shore, and while he would not achieve the enduring fame of ...