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An unexpected ballpark figure Edward Smith wishes Stephen Jay Gould had applied the rigour he brought to science to his love of baseball
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Triumph and Tragedy
in Mudville: A Lifelong
Passion for Baseball
by Stephen Jay Gould
Jonathan Cape, pounds 17.99, 342 pp
pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
I WANTED to like this book. I admire the fact that heavyweight
American intellectuals write seriously about sport. I hoped Triumph
and Tragedy in Mudville, Stephen Jay Gould's posthumously collected
pieces on baseball, would show a brilliant mind engaged with the big
questions of sport...
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`Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball,' by Stephen Jay Gould; W.W. Norton ($24.95).
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; 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
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`Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball,' by Stephen Jay Gould; W.W. Norton.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; 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
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Baseball for brainiacs
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; 00-00-0000 Headline: Baseball for brainiacs Byline: ELLI WOHLGELERNTER Edition; Daily Section: Books Page: 13 Friday, May 30, 2003 -- Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould. W.W.Norton & Company. 320 pp. $24.95 The highest accolade given a baseball
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Stephen Jay Gould
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; 00-00-0000 Stephen Jay Gould Date: 05-23-2002, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All EditionsTwo Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Biographical: STEPHEN JAY GOULD STEPHEN JAY GOULD may indeed have been a pioneering scientist who opened new possibilities for evolutionary theory. By most accounts, the
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