Even though Atlanta is now inundated with
Final Four March Madness and I can proudly wear my vintage Wichita
State sweatshirt (I remember “classmates” Antoine Carr and Cliff
Levingston, but my favorite whizz u player was “X”), my
attentions always turn to baseball in April. Since the baseball season is plenty long, I ignor Spring
training, except I usually start the season with a baseball book.
Currently, I am reading Wilfrid Sheed's collection of essays Baseball
and Lesser Sports (1990). Last year, I read his fine memoir, My
Life as a Fan, (1993), which I wrote about in a posting called "The Joys of Losing."
Coincidently, checking through my
calendar of links (see below), I noticed that another baseball writer
Robert Weintraub is at the Decatur Public Library on April 15th to talk about his new book The Victory Season: The End of World
War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age. I
hope Weintraub wrote that the Golden Age actually began in 1945, the
last year that my Chicago Cubs were in the World Series. Little did I know in 1968 (shown here), that the Cubs -- a consensus pick for Central Division cellar-dwellers in 2013 -- would cause such a lifetime of misplaced loyalty. As Steve Goodman sang in "The Dying Cub Fan's Last Request," my hopes have been "crushed like so many paper beer cups."
Here's a few other book event venues.
The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum
The Georgia Center for the Book
Margaret Mitchell House/Atlanta History Center
Emory University Creative Writing Program and the Carlos Musuem
Georgia State University Creative Writing Events
Also note: GSU is having a special night on April 11th celebrating Five Points Magazine
Local Bookstores
Peerless Books - Alpharetta
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Posted by: facultyrow.com | October 23, 2013 at 07:20 AM