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It Happens Every Spring

Craig Clarke wrote this review. Ray Milland is a total charmer as the lead in this light-hearted baseball fantasy. Milland stars as chemistry professor Vernon Simpson, who accidentally discovers a potion that repels wood after a baseball flies through his … Continue reading

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Play Ball: Baseball in Film

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all … Continue reading

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Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd

Roughly speaking, books about baseball tend to fall into a few broad categories. The analytics crowd tends to go for titles that are heavy on snark and numbers in equal measures, the clear descendants of their online sources. Other books … Continue reading

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Sam Stephenson, Adam Sobsey et alia’s Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark

To be a fan of a minor league baseball team to be a fan of change. The best thing that can happen to your team’s best players is that they leave, promoted to a higher level. Those who return year … Continue reading

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