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Review roundup, May 27, 2015

Kind of weird: it’s almost June and still no baseball book reviews in The New York Times? I know space is precious on those pages,m but still… In the meantime: From the Rockford, Ill., Rock River Times, this piece on Steven K.  Wagner’s Perfect: The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball’s Greatest One-Game Wonder. Confusing upshot: “Wagner may not have produced the greatest baseball book of…

The Bookshelf Conversation: Gary Cieradkowski

This is a wonderful age we live in. A decade ago, I never would have been able to meet someone like Gary Cieradkowski, the artist who created The Infinite Baseball Card set and author of the newly-published The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes. I’ve known Cieradkowski for several years thanks to e-mail. It’s one of those situations where we have…

Ain’t misbehavin’

“No one to talk with, all by myself…”

Didn’t post a Bookshelf Conversation last week, and won’t have one this week either. That’s a shame because I enjoy a good chat with creative people, getting to know what their process is, how they go to this point in their work, etc.

As a sneak preview, future conversations will include Jeff Katz, author of the forthcoming Split Season: 1981: Fernandomania,…