One day I realized that I lack copies of all my out-of-print books. The ones that my fans expect me to have are mostly copies of the books I wrote for children. I don’t have copies of them all. But I’m trying to address that problem. Continue reading “July 3, 2016”
June 21, 2016
The manuscript that I hope will become my next book has just been sent to my agent, who is also an accomplished editor. She has applied her talents to finding my writing slips and is now preparing the manuscript by resetting it in the style approved by the publisher she believes will be happy to publish it. Continue reading “June 21, 2016”
May 4, 2016
April rounded out nicely, with stimulating visits as well as travel. On Wednesday, April 26 I had the pleasure of lunching here at the Carlisle with two delightful umpires, both of them women and both experienced in their field. Continue reading “May 4, 2016”
May 2, 2016
April 28, 2016 proved to be an exciting day. I came to Kansas City to enjoy the premiere of Producer Mark Honer’s documentary, “Town Teams: Bigger Than Baseball,” which demonstrates the way local baseball influenced town pride and rivalry, helping drive the competition between towns in ways that advanced the economy and made baseball towns into lively places where baseball became the center of everyone’s interest. Continue reading “May 2, 2016”
April 20, 2016
“It seems like more and more fans are women. Why don’t the big-league clubs solicit women’s attendance?” was one of the good questions I handled at the Forum before the morning’s program at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Naples on April 17.
March 31, 2016
The NINE Spring Training Conference in Tempe this year kept up its high standards in the quality of scholarly presentations. Continue reading “March 31, 2016”
Jan. 17, 2016
When I delivered the keynote address at “The Fred” in Cooperstown on April 15, 2014, I focused on my conviction that the kind of research into baseball history still needed had to do with the amateur players rather than the professionals. A fuller understanding of the amateur contribution to America would make for a more well-rounded view of our country’s early history. Continue reading “Jan. 17, 2016”
Nov. 2, 2015
On Nov. 21 The Naples Press Club will present a Book Fair at Barnes & Noble at the Waterside Shops in Naples, Fla. Twenty local authors have been invited to show and sell their books, and each will get ten minutes to speak on the stage. Continue reading “Nov. 2, 2015”
July 11, 2015
I just finished reading a book I wish I had written: Susan Petrone’s latest novel, Throw Like a Woman. Continue reading “July 11, 2015”
June 21, 2015
Last month I read a new book, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, written by Megan Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. Because I am a member of a Unitarian congregational, I enjoy reading about the early transcendentalist movement. While reading I this book I found a mention of early baseball, checking it out with research I once typed long ago for Harold Seymour’s Cornell dissertation in 1956 and with David Block’s book, Baseball Before We Knew It, published in 2005.
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