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Failures Anonymous
Thanks to everyone who responded to my attempt to give away some copies of my latest book. Several people were kind enough to leave some good words about my previous book, Cardboard Gods, on Amazon. If...
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Larry
Ngai and I were working the Saturday night shift. This was in the early 1990s, before you could read things like this on the internet. Before the internet. I sat on the stool behind the counter up at...
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Louis Wilker
Louis Wilker, 92, of Asheville, NC, died on Sunday, January 21, 2018, at Mission St. Joseph Hospital in Asheville after a stroke. Louis was born on the Lower East Side of New York City on February 23,...
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Fred C. Harris and Brendan C. Boyd
Here are several things wrong with The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book: The title. Good lord, what a long and difficult to remember title! I’ve been steering people...
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Americans
Last Saturday night I dreamed about my father for the first time since he died. We were at a social gathering at someone’s house and it was time to go. He and I were going to walk together to the bus...
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Mondale-Ferraro ’84
In the first inning of Game 4 of the 2018 American league Championship Series, Jose Altuve struck a long, hard drive toward the right field stands because doing everything well on a baseball field,...
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Untitled
Played 3. Over Thanksgiving at my mom’s house I filled up a large cardboard box with some of my father’s books, most of them thicker and heavier than bricks. On the day we left, as I struggled with...
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Theories of Child Development
Kingdom Come Three My father was a reader. My father wanted the kingdom of heaven to come. He wanted it here on earth for everyone, and he believed in the possibility of it here on earth, and he...
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Q&A with Eric Nusbaum, Author of Stealing Home
I had the privilege of talking recently with Eric Nusbaum about his new book, Stealing Home, an essential read for fans of baseball history, American history, or just plain great literature. I loved...
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Lion
What’s It Good For? part three (of four) One night a few weeks ago, after spending all day in this room, I went upstairs and put on my bandanna and baseball cap and took the dog outside. I encountered...
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new gods: intro
For a few weeks now, as the world convulses, I’ve been sorting cards. My method is to first sort cards into teams, with the teams themselves grouped on the table in front of me by the divisional...
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