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The Books: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, ‘Distance,’ by Roger Angell
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, by … Continue reading
The Books: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, ‘On the Ball,’ by Roger Angell
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, by … Continue reading
The Books: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, ‘Agincourt and After,’ by Roger Angell
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader, by … Continue reading
Cousin Mike O’Malley Welcomes Home the Sox
Cousin Mike hosted the Red Sox Welcome Home Bash last Friday at Boston’s House of Blues. His co-host was Kevin Millar, which, I mean, come on! Cowboy Up! I wasn’t able to attend, but there were lots of O’Malleys in … Continue reading
Welcome Home Red Sox Party
The annual Welcome Home Red Sox party is happening this Friday, April 4, and it’s being hosted (as it has for a bunch of years now) by my cousin Mike. During the long winter months, there are moments when I … Continue reading
The Books: A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing, “Ring Lardner” by H.L. Mencken
Next up on the essays shelf: A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing, by H.L. Mencken You know, I haven’t read much Ring Lardner. A piece here and there (some of them are anthologized in the various … Continue reading
The Books: The Only Game In Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker; edited by David Remnick; ‘Project Knuckleball’, by Ben McGrath
Next up on the essays shelf: The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick The Only Game in Town is a collection of sports writing from The New Yorker. So far, I have excerpted … Continue reading
The Books: The Only Game In Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker; edited by David Remnick; ‘Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu’, by John Updike
Next up on the essays shelf: The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick The Only Game in Town is a collection of sports writing from The New Yorker. So far, I have excerpted … Continue reading
The Books: The Only Game In Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker; edited by David Remnick; ‘The Web of the Game’, by Roger Angell
Next up on the essays shelf: The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick The Only Game in Town is a collection of sports writing from The New Yorker. So far, I have excerpted … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, essays, Red Sox, Roger Angell, The Only Game In Town
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Seen Recently: 42 (2013), Renegade Girl (1946), All of Me (1984)
42 directed by Brian Helgeland First, go read this conversation by my two pals, Odie Henderson and Steven Boone. They discuss 42. I had already been excited to see it, because I love baseball movies, and I love Harrison Ford, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Savage, baseball, comedy, Harrison Ford, Lily Tomlin, reviews, sports movies, Steve Martin, westerns
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