I went to the Old Timers Lunch on Friday in Sacramento, to do interviews for my book on Joe Marty. It was a good day in my life. I did a couple of key interviews and also got to talk to a former Sacramento Solon named Gus Stathos. Stathos, who I interviewed at the estate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ongoing projects’
Gus Stathos, spring training in 1947, and Jackie Robinson
Posted: 14th May 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Gus Stathos, Joe Marty, ongoing projects
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About five years overdue: I join the Society for American Baseball Research
Posted: 15th April 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, SABR
I did something today that I have wanted to do for the past few years and joined the Society for American Baseball Research. For those who don’t know, it is a research society for people who like to read, write and talk about baseball (I like to do all three.) I attended a lunch meeting [...]
Belated post-mortem on my chance to interview Will Clark
Posted: 23rd February 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: Hitters Hall of Fame, ongoing projects, Ted Williams Museum, Will Clark
I have been remiss in posting the outcome of my opportunity to interview Will Clark at an awards dinner in Florida a couple of weeks ago. As some may have surmised, I did not attend the event or interview Clark, even by phone. I have not written about this until today partly due to my [...]
Baseball coma
Posted: 22nd February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I spent much of yesterday transcribing my interview from Saturday with the 96-year-old former big league teammate of Joe Marty, who I’m interested in writing a book on. While transcribing yesterday, between being held in some kind of spell — a baseball coma, if you will — I got further affirmation of what had already [...]
Yes, send me all of the baseball books
Posted: 14th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Book reviewsTags: Chief Bender's Burden, Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, ongoing projects, SABR
Had something cool happen yesterday afternoon. I got a knock on the door from the postman, who had a package for me. I don’t often get much beyond bills in the mail, so I was intrigued. It turns out a publisher had sent me a copy of a new baseball book. I’ll rewind by saying [...]
Questions for the 96-year-old ballplayer
Posted: 10th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Ronnie King, Sacramento baseball players
I got some questions mailed off to the daughter of the 96-year-old former baseball player I want to interview. I’m interested in writing a book on one of his former teammates on the 1940 Philadelphia Phillies, Joe Marty, and this man is one of three people still living, all over 90, who played in the [...]
Looks like my weekend plans are set
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, Joe Marty, ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
I was just looking at my Google Analytics stats and saw I had a spike yesterday in the number of people who read my obituary on former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in October at 100. I wondered if the Sacramento Bee had finally written anything about him. They declined to do a [...]
Technology to the rescue
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: chronicles of the marginally employed, Hitters Hall of Fame, ongoing projects, Ted Williams Museum, Will Clark
I interviewed this morning for a sales position with a start-up in Mountain View and got to talking about the upcoming opportunity I have to interview Will Clark upon his induction into the Hitters Hall of Fame at the Ted Williams Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida on February 13. At this point, I still can’t [...]
Possible spin-off?
Posted: 31st January 2010 by Graham Womack in Blogging talesTags: ongoing projects
One of the guys who oversees the network of sites my blog belongs to emailed me today, wanting to get my thoughts on creating a San Francisco Giants blog. He wrote, in part: I know its your favorite team and you would have no problem writing about them… I also think you would get more [...]
Let’s get a credential
Posted: 28th January 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: ongoing projects, Sacramento baseball players
A couple months ago, I decided one of my goals for 2010 would be to get a press pass for a San Francisco Giants or Oakland Athletics game. I used to get media access all the time as a journalist and have had passes to Arco Arena for a Sacramento Kings game, AT&T Park for [...]