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Headnote: Last Week Tonight — one of my favorite shows — did a bit with newscasters ruminating about how quickly the year has gone by (unfortunately I can’t find a clip of that segment). That’s how I feel: July already?? Moving on (one of John Oliver’s signature lines)… ♦ ♦ ♦ Amazon keeps changing the […]

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No, not Bugs Bunny this time. Remember the scene in The Natural in which the NY Knights hired a hypnotist (Doc Knobb) to try to get the team out of a prolonged slump? I wonder if Dr. David Tracy’s 1951 book, The Psychologist at Bat, served as the inspiration for the character in the film?

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Steven Gietschier, a former archivist for The Sporting News (talk about a dream job for a baseball reader), is one of those people I had know for many years without ever having met. There were numerous e-mail exchanges and a few phone calls, but nothing face to face. I finally had that chance in 2023 at […]

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Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the […]

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A few weeks ago a young colleague of mine happened to be singing a song that was part of a Walt Disney exhibit at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. I told her I was there and she was amazed. I thought I still had the official guidebook for the event, but it turns […]

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