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Talk and Book Signing 7/7 @ 7, BookCourt in Brooklyn
Martin and I will be discussing the great national (and international!) pastimes of cricket and baseball on 7/7 @7 (in ’11!) and signing copies of Right Off the Bat at BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201-6263, in beautiful … Continue reading
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What’s the Immigrants’ Game, Then?
A story in the New York Times today discusses the role that cricket is playing in cohering South Asian immigrants who live in Rome. Cricket, according to the piece, is one of Italy’s fastest growing sports, and much more popular … Continue reading
Right Off the Bat at BookExpo America
Here’s a video of our time at BookExpo America, page 64. You can also listen to the extended interviews in our podcast here.
Right Off the Bat Written Up in Publishers Weekly Show Daily
We were given a nice little write-up by Publishers Weekly for their daily report on and for BookExpo America, which is the annual bunfight for publishers and those to whom they would sell books and (increasingly) who would sell to … Continue reading
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Right Off the Bat Book Featured at BookExpo America
Wednesday, May 25, noon, booth 3353, we are signing the first copies of Right Off the Bat for the book trade at BookExpo America. It promises to be a lively time. Our publisher, Paul Dry, will be on hand of … Continue reading
Sale-ing up the Amazon
A few days ago, Right Off the Bat was sitting marooned on a sandbank in the Amazon delta at 4,998,000-odd in terms of its rankings. We check in today, and lo and behold, a stiff breeze has filled its sales … Continue reading
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And Now It’s Here
Yes, the book’s arrived, and we couldn’t be happier than a brace of clowns who’d just won the lottery and had ingested an Ecstasy pill on nitrous oxide and were attending a comedy club. To celebrate, we’ve launched our very … Continue reading
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It’s Almost Here
The first copies of Right Off the Bat have rolled off the presses and are winging their way to our office at this very moment. To celebrate their imminent arrival, we’ve set up a new section—News and Events—which will cover … Continue reading
Hurray for Captain Spalding
“The Library of Congress has more than one thousand of these guides, believed to be the largest collection held by any institution. A small sample is offered in Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939; in the future, the entire collection may … Continue reading
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The Greatest Student Batter in New York City History?
The New York Times reports Manny Ramirez’s high-school batting average as .650. The main photo accompanying this Times article shows a determined teenager in 1991. Some of the other legendary batsmen in New York-school history include Hank Greenberg, Ed Kranepool, … Continue reading
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