Red Sox fans have officially been singing “Take me out to the ball game” for a century. Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary is today and what better way to celebrate than to play the New York Yankees. Check out MSNBC and NBC Sports for photos and reactions. And take advantage of UNP’s Boston Baseball sale. You can save 25 percent on Ted Williams: A Baseball Life by Michael Seidel and Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball by Mark Armour. Continue reading Boston baseball
Banzai Babe Ruth is the story of baseball all-stars staying for a month in Japan, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball, and spreading goodwill. Robert Whiting said in the Wall StreetJournal that Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert K. Fitts “deserves a spot in any baseball (or Japan) lover’s library.” On Shelf-Awareness, Fitts is hailed as “…excellent at capturing occasional bouts of dissension among the American players, describing the respectable quality of play by their Japanese opponents, and especially at capturing the ominous atmosphere that surrounded the tour. Fans will love the stats and player photos, too!” Continue reading Banzai Babe Ruth rave reviews
UNP is offering 25 percent off select books in honor of Shavuot. At the discount price, you can get books like The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth. The authors provide a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth and is included in theJPS Bible Commentary Series. Click here for more sale titles. Offer ends May 25, 2012. Continue reading In honor of Shavuot
Chris Lamb, author of Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball published articles over this past week on what inspired Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson Day. See his full articles in the New York Times and USA Today. Continue reading UNP author in the media
Congratulations to Anne F. Hyde for becoming a Pulitzer finalist! Her book, Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, was named a finalist in the History category. Earlier this year, she was awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted awards in the field of history. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Congrats again, Anne! Continue reading Hyde becomes Pulitzer finalist
Congratulations to Ken Armstrong for winning a Pulitzer in investigative reporting! Armstrong and Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times won for their coverage of how a little known governmental body in Washington moved patients from safer pain-killers to a cheaper but more dangerous drug. Armstrong is one of the authors of Scoreboard, Baby, where he goes behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale. Libby Sander of the Chronicle of Higher Education called Scoreboard, Baby a tale that "should be required reading for anyone linked to university life." Continue reading Armstrong wins Pulitzer
Happy Opening Day to baseball fans all across the country! According to Shelf Awareness, UNP is doing its part by having more than 118 baseball titles in print. And David Davis of the New York Times said, “the pulse of baseball beats strongly in the heart of Cornhusker Nation.” Davis interviewed interim editor-in-chief, Rob Taylor, about how the press started to publish so many baseball books. Read the full article here. And Dorothy Seymour Mills reviewed Conspiracy of Silence by Chris Lamb for the New York Journal of Books as “…overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of the black press in … Continue reading Baseball season is here
Author Ellen Cassedy's article “What Lithuania can teach us about dealing with the Holocaust” for Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel, discusses how Lithuania can provide a dialogue for helping people understand the Holocaust. “The approach to the Jewish past thatI saw in Lithuania poses questions, rather than supplying answers,” Cassedy said. “Rather than being forced to repent, people are invited to design their own vehicles of remorse.” See full article here. Cassedy’s new book, We Are Here, is a memoir of her personal journey discovering her Yiddish background and an exploration of the people of Lithuania. In October, Cassedy will … Continue reading Lithuanian past and present
This week in Bloomberg Business Week, Colleen Barry shows how ex-mafia land is producing prize-winning wine. Wine from the Centopassi vineyard which is on display at the Vinitaly wine fair through tomorrow in Verona are “the result of a (EURO) 1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) European Union-Italian project to integrate ex-Mafiosi property in the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campagna back into the legal economy.” In Robert Camuto’s book, Palemento, he chronicles his journey through Sicily where he explores the emerging wine scene while also discovering the anti-Mafia movement growing in the former mob vineyards around infamous Corleone. Read … Continue reading Ex-mafia land and Italian wine
This week on the Jewish Book Council, Rabbi Barry Schwartz began discussing his new book, Judaism’s Great Debates. His book, which will be published in July, is an engaging and well-researched argument that debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and theology. Schwartz's post is titled, “We Need More Jewish Debate, Not Less,” and is the first of three blog posts he's writingfor the Jewish Book Council this week. Continue reading Judaism’s Great Debates
