Steve Kettman, a former Bookshelf Conversation guest, discusses his work on Dusty Baker’s new book, Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life (out June 9).
A reminder: The National Baseball Poetry Festival will be held May 7-10 at Polar Park in Worcester, MA. I had a BC with Steve Biondilillo, founder of the Festival, earlier this month.
I do not include baseball “romance novels” on this blog, but this caught my eye: “The White Sox held Windy City Series Night in honor of the popular sports-adjacent romantic novels of the same name by author Liz Tomforde, who just published a spinoff of the series titled “In Her Own League.”” (Photo by Jeremy Battle/Block Club Chicago)
The San Diego Union-Tribune posted this piece on Strasberg’s Baseball Klediment Tales, by Andy Strasberg. Cool cover, don’t you think?
From the Beyond the Monster substack, a recent Pod by the River podcast “features a conversation with Michael Clair, author of We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball, a book that chronicles the unlikely rise of the Czech Republic’s national baseball team during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The conversation quickly becomes a reflection on what baseball means when it exists outside the structure, money, and permanence of Major League Baseball.”
The Rhode Island Catholic posted this article on the documentary, Baseball: Beyond Belief. I still have to post my review.