`Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball,' by Stephen Jay Gould; W.W. Norton.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: July 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Larry Swindell

The death last year of Stephen Jay Gould at age 60 deprived American letters of its most beguiling paleontologist, whose disarming literary forays into natural science charmed thousands of readers lacking interest in, or orientation to, natural science.

As delightful as their titles are such Gould hallmarks as "The Panda's Thumb," "The Flamingo's Smile," "Dinosaur in the Haystack" and the much-honored "The Mismeasure of Man." Gould became our foremost writer of popular science, but if he had his druthers, he _ not Mickey Mantle _ would have ...

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