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This is a delightful must-read fictional short story that is available for free online or $0.80 on the Kindle. It’s about a peculiar book store, Google book scanning, information visualization, and immortality. The author is Current TV‘s Robin Sloan. Hopefully the Kindle platform and/or other quick online publishing solutions will encourage more short stories like [...]
The sub-title for Cape Crusaders is “Real-life stories about the players, coaches, and volunteers, who make the Cape Cod Baseball League the premier amateur summer organization in America.” The book was authored by Mike Thomas, who is the sports editor for The Herald News (Fall River, MA). Overall, Cape Crusaders is worthy of its spot [...]
At the 2006 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game at Red Wilson Field (South Yarmouth, MA), I finally picked up the book Beach Chairs and Baseball Bats by Steve Weissman. Steve was parked behind home plate, as usual, in a tent selling and autographing copies (see my picture to the right). He is a very [...]
In anticipation of the 2006 baseball season, I picked up Slider by Patrick Robinson. The novel, first published in 2002 and re-printed in 2004, is a homage to the Cape Cod Baseball League, but falls short of portraying the league accurately and favors an unrealistic storyline. However, Slider was in fact carefully written and is [...]
Published in 1998, Baseball by the Beach, is perhaps the best attempt to capture the history of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The book isn’t perfect by any means, and could have used one or two more edits, but it is a must-read for fans of the league. Before reading the book, I was unaware [...]
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