Talking Baseballâ€¦A Lot of It

July 12, 2011 by Jeff Polman · Leave a Comment

Eric Weiss was in trouble. The â€œpracticing attorney and unapologetic Yankees fanâ€ from Scarsdale was wrapping up a 25-minute seminar called Baseballâ€™s Greatest Postseason Series, when a handful of people in the Pacific Room of the Long Beach Hilton began to squirm. The battle he was recounting was the 1912 Chicago City Series between the […]

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Story of 1921 Expertly Researched and Written

July 12, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment

1921: The Yankees, The Giants, & The Battle For Baseball Supremacy In New York by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg is one of the best books I’ve read in quite some time.Â Spatz and Steinberg put a lot of time and effort into their 515-page recollection of the 1921 season and it shows.Â In fact, […]

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