A list of New York-centric baseball nicknames in Kevin Baker\u2019s The New York Game sends us down a rabbit hole a hundred years deep in which we consider dozens of players and stories before being stopped by a mystery: Who\u2014and why\u2014was \u201cThe Lively Turtle?\u201d
Join Steve for a baseball panel at the Morristown Festival of Books, October 19!
The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman discusses the game\u2019s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they\u2019ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can\u2019t get anybody out?