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Essay The So-Called Rules of Language, Literature, and Baseball Richard Michelson February 20, 2017
Essay Benny Leonard: The Golden Standard for a Golden Age Earlier this week, Mike Silver introduced readers to boxing’s forgotten Jewish champions of the early twentieth century featured in Stars in the Ring: Jewish… Mike Silver May 5, 2016
Essay In the Clearing Stands a (Jewish) Boxer Mike Silver is a boxing historian whose second book, Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing: A Photographic History, comes out… Mike Silver May 3, 2016
Essay Max Baer, Real and Imagined Earlier this week, Jay Neugeboren shared his personal list of the Jewish sports heroes that made him feel more American. Jay is guest blogging all week as part of the… Jay Neugeboren March 31, 2016
Essay My Jewish Heroes With the recent release of his latest novel, Max Baer and the Star of David, Jay Neugeboren is guest blogging all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The… Jay Neugeboren March 28, 2016
Excerpt Muscle Beach Excerpted from On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks.When I finally made it to New York in June of 1961, I borrowed money from a cousin and bought… Oliver Sacks August 30, 2015
Essay Anivut Mort Zachter is the author of the recently published book Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life. Today he writes for the Jewish Book Council about why he, a Jewish man,… Mort Zachter March 3, 2015
Essay My Parents’ Legacy, My Library, and the Mel Rosen Biography Earlier this week, Craig Darch wrote about how he became interested in writing the Mel Rosen biography. He is the author of From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The… Craig Darch September 17, 2014
Essay Discovering Dolph Schayes Dolph Grundman is the author of Jim Pollard: The Kangaroo Kid, The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball: The AAU Tournament, 1921 – 1968, and, most recently, Dolph Schayes… Dolph Grundman September 16, 2014