May 3, 2012
Name: Mike Buschman Where do you live: Seattle, WA Employment: Co-founder, Plum Analytics Been a member of the caucus since: 2002 What does the caucus give you: I love being connected to library-related baseball fans across the country (and world). Most memorable Baseball caucus meeting: Jim Bouton in New York probably the year I remember [...]
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May 1, 2012
New York Times columnist Dan Barry joins us in the Author Bullpen to discuss Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game published by Harper Perennial. What is your typical research process/methodology: With books as well as with articles and essays, it all begins with an idea – a stray factoid, a small wonder. [...]
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April 9, 2012
Name: Darrell Shiplett Where do you live: Lancaster, CA Title: Librarian, USAF (civ), Air Force Flight Test Center Technical Research Library, Edwards AFB, CA Been a member of the caucus since: Sometime in the 1990’s. I think Cincinnati might have been the first I attended. What does the caucus give you: Fun, info, place to [...]
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April 8, 2012
This month, Sports columnist Tim Wendel talks with the Baseball Caucus about his brand new book, Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball–and America–Forever, published by Da Capo Press. What is your typical research process/methodology I often tend to research and write at the same time. That way the process keeps me going, it stays fresh. [...]
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April 8, 2012
Alexandria, Virginia, 28 February 2012 – The Special Libraries Association’s Nominating Committee has identified eight candidates to stand for election to four positions on the 2013 SLA Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee is responsible for soliciting candidates from SLA’s membership and compiling a group that has compelling talent supported by tangible accomplishments, is professionally [...]
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March 5, 2012
Baseball Caucus member Michael Gruenberg recently had the opportunity to interview writer and correspondent George Vecsey, author of Stan Musial, An American Life. What is your typical research process/methodology? If you are talking about me as a reporter, I’m not using the traditional library. I’m using a lot of New York Times facility for [...]
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March 5, 2012
Name: Alex Caracuzzo Where do you live: Warwick, Rhode Island. 50 miles south of Fenway and 10 minutes from McCoy Stadium, home of the Pawtucket Red Sox and site of baseball’s longest game ever (in 1981). Employment: ”MIT Sloan, Management, and Finance Librarian; Manager, Liaisons for Departments, Labs, and Centers; Coordinator for Social Sciences and Management [...]
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February 6, 2012
Name: Susan Chenoweth Where do you live? Evanston , Illinois. I’ve lived in a city neighborhood of Chicago; Valrico, Tampa and Dunedin Florida; and New Baltimore, Mt. Clemens and Royal Oak Michigan. My Dad liked to move his family and thought it was important to live in different places. Employment: Manager of the Knowledge Center [...]
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January 30, 2012
Submitted by Nan Schubel Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir, by Paul O’Neill with Burton Rocks. (William Morrow, 2003) A passion for the game of baseball drips off every page of this memoir. Learned at his father’s knee Paul O’Neill celebrates the gift of the game to his life. He lauds his father on [...]
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January 11, 2012
Much to Abner Doubleday’s dismay, the winner of the first annual SLA Baseball Caucus Reader’s Choice Award is Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game by John Thorn (Simon & Schuster.) In his award winning book, Thorn goes all the way back to the 1700s to trace the real [...]
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