[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Bad Sports: How Owners Are [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Raceball: How the Major Leagues [...] Read More
In an NPR interview to promote his memoir, West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life, basketball legend Jerry West reminisces about growing up in Chelyan, West Virginia, a small town with fewer than 800 residents. He “loathed” the nickname given to him upon his arrival in Los Angeles, ‘Zeke from Cabin Creek,’ because he’s actually [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Showdown: JFK and the Integration of [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of A Level Playing Field: African American [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Turbulent Seasons: Baseball in 1890-1891.Dabscheck is [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend. [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Out of Left Field: Jews [...] Read More
[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face [...] Read More
The newest sports movie, Moneyball, is an adaptation of the popular business book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. Brad Pitt stars as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, whose sabermetric (objectively analytical) approach to drafting a low-budget baseball team changed the way that many athletic scouts measure players’ potential. [...] Read More