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Published: July 31, 2010

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Haven’t done one of these in a long time, but a glance at my Google alerts shows more than 500 notices, so here goes.

Bruce Markusen at Hardball Times, conducted this interview with Dan Epstein , author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass . HT also ran this review of The Eastern Stars (upshot: “The Eastern Stars leaves the reader with a much clearer impression of where these players come from, and the lives led by their parents and grandparents. But it doesn’t do much to explain why San Pedro has been responsible for so much baseball greatness, and it leaves the prospects themselves just as opaque as they’ve always been.” Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, will present and sign his new biography of the baseball legend at Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Monday, Aug.  2 at 7 p.m. For info, call 310-659-3110. Any link to baseball is better than no link at all: The Wall Street Journal ran this book review of The Man Who Sold America , the biography of major advertising maven Albert Lasker . So what, you may ask? So this: “A major investor in his beloved Chicago Cubs, Lasker persuaded owner William Wrigley to change the name of Cubs Park to Wrigley Field—Lasker wanted to help the chewing-gum magnate sell more product. When the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal threatened the sport, Lasker came up with the plan to restructure major-league baseball and appoint Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as its czar.” Josh Wilker -- Photo by Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune

Macleans , Canada’s answer to Time and Newsweek , published this review of Sean Manning ’s Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player . Upshot: “When it comes to real, living players, though, the contributors to this book often seem to be working out their own conflicted feelings about the game.” The Chicago Tribune ran this nice little ...
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