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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna Legend has it that Bozo arrived on the Hinds campus sometime in the mid-40s. While there is no evidence to pinpoint the exact date of Bozo’s arrival, or birth, albeit whatever manner he, she or it, was created, the date of its origin still remains a mystery. There [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In the fall of 1970, I sat in my fourth-grade Sunday school class. Our teacher, Mrs. Hemphill, posed a question to the class of three girls and three boys. “Who is your hero?” she asked. The girls in the class mentioned Bobbie Gentry and Jackie Kennedy and Nancy [...]

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It’s been, oh, at least a few weeks since I last blogged about a baseball book…what can I say? Whenever I’m feeling a bit uninspired by the next book in my reading stack, I find myself gravitating toward the baseball section. I’m sure it’s possible to write a bad baseball book (I’ve seen them and [...]

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Born to Run is one of those books that I wanted to read when it was released, but the stack of books on my nightstand was too tall at the time. Occasionally I’d spot the book when unpacking boxes or while I was looking for something in the sports and outdoor section, but it wasn’t [...]

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I’ve been thinking about Moneyball again. Actually, it’s fair to say that I think about Moneyball a good bit. I’m an avid baseball fan, and I have a particular interest in sabermetrics, which is a term coined by Bill James that refers to the statistical, empirical analysis of baseball. Michael Lewis’s Moneyball brought sabermetrics into [...]

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Those Guys Have All the Fun has made quite the impact in the sports blogosphere. ESPN stands as the singular giant in the sports industry, so far-reaching that it has become virtually synonymous with sport itself. It has blurred the line between athlete, journalist, and fan. It has become the establishment, a massive multi-billion dollar [...]

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Be forewarned–this is a book for the bike geek. As the title, It’s All About the Bike suggests, the bicycle itself is the subject, the story, not just the background for a morality tale or narrative of human struggle and inspiration. Avid cyclists are prone to imbue their bikes with mythical qualities, to treat them [...]

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Last time I said I would be back with a post all about the new baseball books this year. I’ve decided to postpone that for another week or two – there are just so many new baseball titles that it’d be a shame to leave any out, and I want to read and check out [...]

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My plan for this post was to cover as many of the new baseball books as possible, as I’ve done the last few Aprils. But this year, as I was reading and preparing, I realized that one book stood out and deserved to be discussed in greater detail. So the revised plan is cover that [...]

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Football hasn’t enjoyed the same literary tradition that baseball has. Classics like The Natural, Bang the Drum Slowly, Eight Men Out, Ball Four, and Moneyball are just the peaks of the vast range of baseball literature. But I’ve noticed several new books this year that I think will start to fill the gaps in the [...]

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