I became acquainted with Bill Nowlin when I joined the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) about eight years ago. I have fact-checked many of his contributions to the Games Project. He must be SABR's most prolific writer with over 1000 publications with most of them concerning the Boston Red Sox and their players. Bill has written biographies of even the most obscure players for the Red Sox. Some are in the SABR Bio project while others are complete books.
Bill was also one of the founders of Rounder Records. I have a journal entry reviewing Vinyl Ventures My Fifty Years at Rounder Records.
He has just published a new book Bitten By the Red Sox Bug a Fan's Lifelong Passion. I just started to read it today, While I had to read up to page 958 in Barbra Streisand's to find a connection to Bob Dylan, but I only had to read to page 48 to find a Bob Dylan connection in Bill's book. In 1963 he saw Bob Dylan at Cafe Yana next door to Fenway Park. I used my expert research skills to find documentation of this concert. There is also a reference to this concert in the April 19, 2023 edition of the Boston Globe that can be accessed through Newspapers.com.
It is a shame that Bill didn't sign Mr. Dillon to Rounder Records.
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