My interview with Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf is now up in podcast form — I haven't listened to it yet (like many folks, I can't stand to listen to recordings of myself talking), but I was apparently so verbose that he needed to cut it into two parts!
I also recently chatted about the book with Mike Silva of NY Baseball Digest — you can listen to and download the podcast HERE.
In other Big Hair & Plastic Grass news, the book finally drops tomorrow (it just received a brief but nice mention in the NY Post's Summer Beach Book Preview) and I'll be observing the blessed day by appearing on The Daily Line and Evan "The Funk" Davies' WFMU show. If you're in the NYC area and want to get yer '70s baseball on, please come on out to Brooklyn on Wednesday night and join me at the Bell House for a night of beer, cracker jack, gourmet hot dogs, '70s soul and funk, and a reading by yours truly. I will also be reading late Thursday afternoon at Rizzoli in midtown Manhattan. Come on by and slap me five, baby!
And in the meantime, enjoy this bizarro pic of Joe Torre on the "bitch seat" behind Mickey Lolich at Shea Stadium's "Camera Day" in 1976. As my editor Rob Kirkpatrick sagely (and sarcastically) notes, "The Mets had a knack for getting players in their prime..."
A weirdly high percentage of the players pictured on the site (including Mickey, Kurt, Oscar, and Rollie just on this page!) were Padres at one time...
Posted by: Arthurbmartin | 05/25/2010 at 05:41 PM
evan the funk davies--love fmu
Posted by: bebopgun | 05/25/2010 at 08:25 PM