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face="arial, helvetica, geneva" size="3">Bernard Titowsky's Austin Book Shopface="bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, georgia" size="2">
"In 1986, Titowsky began applying his skills to his childhood love of the national pastime. Today, he can provide a story for every book in his inventory - and he has nearly 5,000. Bill Deane, of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, confirms that the shop "is certainly one of the leading [outlets for baseball literature], if not the leading one," in the world. . . . Over the years, Titowsky has elicited phone calls from the late Commissioner of Baseball Bart Giamatti, the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and veteran announcer Mel Allen . . . ."Stuart Miller, "Bob Feller, Was He a Pitcher? - The Austin Book Shop will answer this and other petinent questions about the game", Gentlemen's Quarterly, p. 40 (June 1991).
[Photograph courtesy of Barbara Titowsky Krysko.]
