Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Play-Ball-Some-Basic-Baseball-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/5/2006 Play Ball! Transcript If it’s raining and the game’s called, you can still keep the youngest baseball players you know dreaming of their next at-bat with some of the many new books that have been appearing about the great American (and increasingly, the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Story-of-Casey-at-the-Bat.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/4/2003 Casey at the Bat Transcript Ernest Thayer did not start out as a baseball fan. He was most interested in pragmatic philosophy. Yet he had a humorous side and an ear for doggerel. And so he found himself editor of the Harvard Lampoon in the […]
As curator of a historical children’s literature collection, Rita Smith comes across many things youngsters stuck into pages of a book. Today, she discusses a recent find: baseball cards.