The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game
By Tim Brown, with Erik Kratz
Twelve; hardcover, 304 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, July 11th
Tim Brown has covered baseball for more than thirty years, including when he covered the Yankees in the 1990s for the Newark Star-Ledger. He has written two New York Times bestsellers, The Phenomenon, with Rick Ankiel and Imperfect, with Jim Abbott.
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| The Morgan Library in New York City. Photo by Jason Schott. |
With summer upon us, this is a wonderful time to spend a lazy afternoon on the beach or in the park, and these three new novels will inspire and enlighten you: Escape to Florence, by Kat Devereaux; Promise, by Rachel Eliza Griffiths; and The Beach at Summerly, by Beatriz Williams.
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
By Lorissa Rinehart
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 400 pages; $32.00; available today, Tuesday, July 11th
Lorissa Rinehart is a cultural critic and historian who writes about art, war, politics, and the places where they intersect. Her writing has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Perfect Strangers, and Narratively, among other publications, and she holds an MA from NYU.
The Ocean Above Me
By Kevin Sites
Harper; hardcover, 272 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, July 11th
Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist and author, who worked as a reporter for over thirty years, half of that covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo News, and Vice News. He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. For a decade, he lived and taught in Hong Kong as an associate professor of practice in journalism at the University of Hong Kong. He has written three books on war, In the Hot Zone,The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords.
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| Yankee Stadium's facade. Photo by Jason Schott. |
It didn't take the Yankees long to find their new hitting coach, as they named former All-Star Sean Casey to the role less than a day after dismissing Dillon Lawson.
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| Christopher Morel and Clay Bellinger (bottom left) after they scored to tie the game for Chicago, as Tommy Kahnle (41) reacts. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Yankees coughed up a three-run lead as they lost a heartbreaker to the Chicago Cubs, 7-4, on Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium to finish up the first half of the regular season on a down note.
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| Giancarlo Stanton (right) and Clarke Schmidt play cornhole with children at the Street Lab. Provided by New York Yankees. |
On Friday, the fifth and final day of HOPE Week, the Yankees honored Street Lab, and its co-founders Leslie and Sam Doval. It is a non-profit that creates temporary "pop-up" programs for city streets and public places in New York City, including parks, plazas, and parking lots.
