Schoendeinst, that is. Another one of those baseball lifers, he turns 88 today.
The Man Who Fought Back: Red Schoendienst was published in 1962, three years after he recovered from tuberculosis. Almost 40 years later, he released Red: A Baseball Life.
Schoendienst, who managed the St. Louis Cardinals from 1965-76 (back-to-back pennants in 1967-68 and the World Series in ’67) and for partial seasons in 1980 and 1990, was elected to the …

Don “Popeye” Zimmer turns 80 today. If I had my time to live over again, I would want to be a baseball lifer. He published two memoirs within two years: Zim: A Baseball Life in 2002, and The Zen of Zim : Baseballs, Beanballs, and Bosses in 2004, after he’d left the Yankees and felt no need to pull punches about his ill treatment at the hands of George Steinbrenner.

Don’t …

I’ve been a little under the weather lately and thus the lag on this blog. Today, I’m a little shell shocked from all the activity that took place over the weekend. I was pretty much un-plugged and disconnected all weekend and missed the news about Jayson Werth, Adrian Gonzalez, Lance Berkman, Shaun Marcum, Derek Jeter, Mark Reynolds, etc., etc.
Rather than repeat what everyone else is basically saying about all the …

   The underdog San Francisco Giants won game three of the NLCS over the Philadelphia Phillies on a picture perfect day in the Bay Area by a score of 3-0. My other bandwagon team the New York Yankees did not fare so well in the second half of today’s postseason doubleheader losing 10-3 to the Texas Rangers who now lead the ALCS 3-1.
   One great thing about being a Mariners fan is …

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I wonder if the writer of this piece about Doug Glanville’s new book, The Game From Where I Stand, was thinking of Leonard Koppett when she titled her article “A thinking man’s guide to a baseball life.” Koppett, wrote one of the earlier and better far-reaching analysis in The Thinking Man’s (later Thinking Fan’s) Guide to Baseball.
Upshot: “True stories like those make Glanville’s book far more personal than …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …

Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30

Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm, by Edmon Rodman
Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball (1975), Frank: The First Year (1976), and Extra Innings (1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager and Frank Robinson, Born Leader, by Al Hirshberg. As with many …