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Tag Archives: 1950s
Baseball Between the Lines
Baseball Between the Lines is a direct sequel to Don Honig’s Baseball When the Grass was Real, being an oral history of baseball in the 1940s and 1950s, recounting interviews with ballplayers of the era. This was an time of … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1940s, 1950s, audiobook, baseball, Donald Honig, history, Nonfiction 2025, sports and outdoors
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And God Came In
A friend lent this to me, knowing of my love of all things C.S. Lewis. It’s a biography of Joy Davidman, a Jewish-American convert to Christianity who befriended Lewis over letters, then later moved to England and became his great … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, biography, Britain, Christianity, CS Lewis, Joy Davidman, religion, women
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The Calculating Stars
The night is young and you’re so beautiful, can’t we get into the swing of – what was THAT?! The Calculating Stars opens with a rocket scientist and a math genius/former WASP pilot having a romantic night in the mountains, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged 1950s, alt-history, disaster, human space flight, Mary Robinette Kowal, science fiction, The Lady Astronaut, women
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A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights
Alabama public libraries were early stages for Civil Rights projects, given their high public profile and higher deals: libraries were created for the common good, for the benefit of society, meant to serve everyone. How could they bar someone from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, Alabama, American South, bookshops and libraries, Civil Rights, history
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Short rounds: Idols, community, and baseball bros
Despite appearances, I have been reading this past week… Elizabeth Scalia’s Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life invites readers to consider those things which get between them and God. I heard sermons on this topic in my youth … Continue reading
Astounding
I don’t remember why I picked up “Foundation” back in 2008, but it would be the beginning of an obsession with Asimov that saw me reading collection after collection of his stories from the 1930s – 1960s, finding greater and … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, science fiction
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, biography, science fiction
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA© 2016 Amy Shira Teitel304 pages You know the story. The scene: 1950s America. Everyone is drinking on the back patio in suburbia, dressed in cardigans or pearls and pastel … Continue reading
America’s untouchables and baseball
Shortly after the financial implosion of the late 2000s and the beginning of the ‘great recession’, physicist & banker Chris Arnade began long walks around New York City to contemplate the ramifications of his and his ‘industry’s’ reckless speculation and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, 1950s, 2010s, audiobook, baseball, crime, drugs-alcohol-pharmaceuticals, mental health-illness, poverty, sports and outdoors
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