I received an advance copy of Baseball Fantography just as I was finishing the recent series on Cardboard Gods that had been inspired by a photo on the Fantography™ website of Padres pitcher D...
https://cardboardgods.net/2012/03/22/nine-innings-with-andy-strasberg/
My book on the 1977 film The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training is officially out today. In honor of those sequelized Bears, I thought I’d share one of my favorite pictures ever, apparently f...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/06/07/when-bears-walked-with-angels/
If you’re in the neighborhood of Naperville, Illinois, this evening, come on out to Anderson’s Bookshop, where Lagunitas will be provide the beer, Pete Nelson will read from his hilarious ...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/06/01/free-beer-tour-begins-tonight/
The image at left, from one of the great live albums, has little to do with the day I have ahead of me, except that I’ll spend some of it reading Keith Richards’ excellent recent autobiograph...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/05/05/book-cellar-reading-tonight-55/
It’s gray and rainy today, and I wish I could spend the day riding around as a passenger in a baseball-headed bullpen cart. Maybe a baseball-headed bullpen cart version of Neal Cassady, much le...
Today the book industry newsletter Shelf Awareness is running a little Q&A with me that includes a question about my top five authors that I expanded (following Charles Bukowski’s lead) into a ...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/31/opening-day-starting-nine/
Cardboard Gods is officially out in paperback today. Algonquin Books posted some news about their release of the paperback (including a chance to get a free copy) and also included my “liner no...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/15/cardboard-gods-the-liner-notes/
The “According to the Gods” 2011 team-by-team preview continues today with a stomach-churning look at Lou Piniella and the New York Yankees, but I wanted to also mention the rapidly approachi...
https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/07/cardboard-gods-the-paperback/
When I’m not working or sleeping or staring at baseball cards or the television, I’m reading or walking to the library to get some more books. I guess there are a couple other miscellaneous a...
https://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/29/cardboard-books-the-year-in-reading/
The gripping new novel Dirty Water, coauthored by mystery writer Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and her son, Jere Smith, begins inside Fenway Park in the midst of the Red Sox’ 2007 championship...
https://cardboardgods.net/2008/11/07/cardboard-books-dirty-water/