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Trapped on the Beach? Reach for a Book

Golfers bring good golf books to the beach. Here is recommended reading on a hot summer day.

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:09 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Swingers

Carl Hiaasen’s memoir of returning to golf after 32 years; Leigh Montville’s biography of a thief turned celebrity golfer; and Dan Jenkins’s novel about a sportswriter covering the L.P.G.A.

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 7:01 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Golf, Florida, Books and Literature, Hiaasen, Carl, Downhill Lie, The (Book), Jenkins, Dan, Mysterious Montague, The (Book), Montague, John, Montville, Leigh, Franchise Babe, The (Book)

Children’s Books: A League of Their Own

Two new books tell the story of African-American baseball before Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:50 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Children and Youth, Blacks, Books and Literature, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Book), Sturm, James, Tommaso, Rich, Nelson, Kadir, We Are the Ship (Book), Negro League

Eliot Asinof, ‘Eight Men Out’ Author, Is Dead at 88

Mr. Asinof’s journalistic re-creation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, “Eight Men Out,” became a classic of both baseball literature and narrative nonfiction.

Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:14 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Deaths (Obituaries), Books and Literature, Asinof, Eliot

Beverly Rae Kimes, Automotive Journalist and Historian, Is Dead at 68

Ms. Kimes parlayed a job as a secretary at a fledgling car magazine into a career as one of the nation’s pre-eminent historians of automobiles.

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 9:31 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Automobiles, Books and Literature, Writing and Writers, Ford Motor Co|F|NYSE, History, Newspapers

Cheering Section: Dying of Cancer, but Full of Life Lessons

Randy Pausch, who has pancreatic cancer and whose book, “The Last Lecture,” has been an inspiration to many, was invited to Pittsburgh Steelers practice.

Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:23 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Books and Literature, Pausch, Randy F, Pittsburgh Steelers

It’s Florida. It’s Hiaasen. It’s Golf?

Carl Hiaasen’s new book is part memoir, part golf diary: an account of how the novelist took up golf again after what he calls “a much-needed layoff of 32 years.”

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 5:51 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Golf, Florida, Books and Literature, Hiaasen, Carl, Downhill Lie, The (Book)

Tv Sports: A Confrontation on ‘Costas Now’ Worthy of a Blog

The confrontation between the author Buzz Bissinger and the sports blogger Will Leitch symbolized the fear and hatred between mainstream media the the blogosphere.

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:38 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Football, Books and Literature, News and News Media, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Leitch, Will, Writing and Writers, Bissinger, Buzz

In the World of Books, Every Game Is the Best

If one game is the greatest ever, can another also be the greatest — or the best? In publishing, where superlatives are spread like cream cheese, the answer is yes.

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 12:21 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Books and Literature

In Publishing World, Every Game Is the Best

If one game is the greatest ever, can another also be the greatest — or the best? In publishing, where superlatives are spread like cream cheese, the answer is yes.

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:31 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Books and Literature

Baseball: Author Up: Canseco Has His Opening Day

About 35 people showed up at a New Jersey bookstore to see Jose Canseco, whose new book, “Vindicated,” claims that he introduced Alex Rodriguez to a steroids supplier.

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:41 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Steroids, Canseco, Jose, Books and Literature

Author Up: Canseco Has His Opening Day