Sports Biblio Digest, 8.25.19: Remembering Harvey Frommer
News, Views and Reviews About Sports Books, History and Culture
Also In This Issue: Andrew Luck’s Retirement; Tom Brady Is No Tom Terrific; Joe Namath’s Southern Education; Following Ted Williams’ Hard Road to .400; Building Fenway Park; From ESPN to the Priesthood; Confessions Of An Ancient Sportswriter
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Some things I’m reading online while I catch up with offline reading I will be featuring here soon:
Remembering Harvey Frommer: Ron Kaplan, Lest We Forget;
From Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, on Andrew Luck’s retirement, which he calls even more stunning than Jim Brown’s;
From Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltway: Tom Brady is No Tom Terrific, particularly in the trademark wars;
From Ian Kahanowitz, Summer Game Books: A Dead Ball Marvel: The Building of Fenway Park And Its Importance;
From Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated: Two minor leaguers who’ve hit .400 since Ted Williams;
From C.J. Lotz, Garden & Gun: An interview with Joe Namath;
From Nick Greene, Slate: An academic philosopher attempts to answer the following question: Do NFL running backs matter any more?;
From John Ourand, Sports Business Journal: An ESPN editor fired for a headline finds healing and a new life as a Roman Catholic priest;
From Lauren Wingenroth, Dance Magazine: Should we care if dance is a sport?;
From Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe: Keeping up with the times is a challenge for this ancient sportswriter.
Sports Book News and Reviews
To be published Sept. 3: ”My Life on the Line,” by former Patriots lineman Ryan O’Callaghan, a memoir of his life as a closeted gay player on the NFL’s most successful franchise (Akashic Books);
From Jorge Iber, at U.S. Sport History, a review of ”Powerful Moments in Sports,” by Martin Gitlin (Rowman & Littlefield);
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This is Digest issue No. 176, published Aug. 25, 2019. The next newsletter will be published Sept. 8.
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