Question of the Week: Unique Interview Location
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This week, PBBC authors answer the question: What is the most unique location at which you've conducted an interview, who were you...
PBBC
- Aug 11, 2020
- 1 min
Designated Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story
Ron Blomberg, the first-ever designated hitter, is the subject of Dan Schlossberg's book, Designated Hebrew. Schlossberg discusses it, as...
PBBC
- Aug 5, 2020
- 6 min
Question of the Week: Favorite Baseball Character
This week's question: Who is your favorite real-life character in baseball history, player or otherwise? *** Bill Veeck. Some of the...
PBBC
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Gotham Baseball: New York's All-Time Team
Mark C. Healey discusses his book, Gotham Baseball - the culmination of his longtime magazine and website of the same name - with The...
PBBC
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
PBBC Presents: Mets vs. Yankees!
Given the preponderance of New York-based writers among our ranks, we started thinking about how best to arrange a...
PBBC
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
Question of the Week: Favorite Baseball Movie
This week's question for our authors has to do with favorite baseball movies. We all have one, and they're not always good, but they...
PBBC
- Jul 22, 2020
- 7 min
Question of the Week: Favorite Sportswriter
This week's question for PBBC authors: Who is your favorite newspaper, magazine or internet-based sportswriter? *** Steve Rushin has...
PBBC
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
YOGI: A Life Behind the Mask
Jon Pessah, author of Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask, dives deep into the golden age of Yankees baseball by exploring the winningest — and...
PBBC
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
PBBC Founders Talk Shop
In a panel discussion with New Jersey City University, Pandemic Baseball Book Club founders Brad Balukjian, Eric Nusbaum, Anika Orrock...
PBBC
- Jul 15, 2020
- 7 min
Question of the Week: Most Unexpected Research Source
This week's question for PBBC authors is about their most unexpected source of has to do with unexpected source of great information as...
PBBC
- Jul 8, 2020
- 6 min
Question of the Week: Worst Promotional Experience
This week's question for PBBC authors has to do with the promotion of their books, either at a reading or while being interviewed....
PBBC
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
From the Stick to the Cove
As the longtime Giants beat writer for MLB.com, Chris Haft had plenty of opportunities to chat up legendary clubhouse manager Mike...
PBBC
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
The PBBC Tips Our Caps to the Negro Leagues
The story of African Americans in baseball is as old as the story of baseball itself. Henry Rosecranse Columbus Jr., a freed slave and...
PBBC
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
This Week's Question: Walk-Up Music
This week's question is geared toward putting readers just a bit deeper into the heads of our PBBC authors. It has nothing to do with...
PBBC
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
PBBC Presents: Icons and Iconoclasts
Pandemic Baseball Book Club members Mitchell Nathanson (Bouton), Jon Pessah (YOGI), John Shea (24), Dale Tafoya (Billy Ball) and Jason...
PBBC
- Jun 24, 2020
- 11 min
This Week's Question: Favorite Piece of Memorabilia
This week, Pandemic Baseball Book Club members talk about their favorite piece of memorabilia, and how it came to be. *** I grew up in a...
PBBC
- Jun 24, 2020
- 1 min
The Hall Ball
Ralph Carhart had a goal: To have his baseball, rescued from a creek near Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y. — the Hall Ball —...
PBBC
- Jun 17, 2020
- 7 min
This Week's Question: Most Embarrassing Moment
This week's question for Pandemic Baseball Book Club members: What is your most embarrassing professional moment? *** Early in my career,...
PBBC
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Working a "Perfect Game"
As it turns out, in this context, "Perfect game" doesn't refer to the feats of a pitcher, but an umpire: a game free of mistaken calls....
PBBC
- Jun 10, 2020
- 5 min
This Week's Question: Favorite Non-Baseball Book
This week’s question for Pandemic Baseball Book Club members: What is your favorite non-baseball book? *** Here are my two favorite...
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