Book Review Portal
by Ryan
on Feb 20, 2006 11:23 AM EST
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Baseball has been blessed with a tremendous accompanying literature, from books profiling its great players, books about the strategy of the sport, as well as books describing its rich history.
Being a baseball bibliophile, one of my long-desired projects was to create a compendium of book reviews about baseball. Given the magnitude of the output of the genre, I'm certainly not going to limit the reviews to myself; there's simply too much out there for me to get to. That's why I'd like the readers of this site to get into the act. Do you have a baseball book and want to review it? Simply post the review in a diary, and I'll transfer it to the front page.
If you want to, you can use this thread to give suggestions for future reviews, as well as simply discussing baseball books in general.
Biography
Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation
By: John Sickels
Review Date: 12 March 2005
Review by: Ryan
The Glory of Their Times (1966)
By Lawrence S. Ritter
Review Date: Forthcoming
Review By: Ryan
Strategy/Statistics
Baseball Between The Numbers
By: Jonah Keri and the editors of Baseball Prospectus
Review Date: 19 Feb 2006
Review By: mkwng
Dealing
By: Terry Pluto
Review Date: 14 June 2006
Review By: DixonCayne
The Last Nine Innings (2006)
By: Charles Euchner
Review Date: 27 March 2006
Review By: Ryan
Prospects
Minor League Baseball Analyst (2006)
By: Deric McKamey
Review Date: 31 Jan 2006
Review By: dgcambridge
Indians History
Opening Day: Cleveland, the Indians, and a New Beginning
By: Jonathan Knight
Review Date: 9 Feb 2005
Review By: Ryan
The Pitch That Killed (1989)
By: Mike Sowell
Review Date: 20 Feb 2005
Review By: Ryan
Steroids
Game of Shadows (2006)
By Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
Review Date: 3 April 2006
Review By: Buzz
Sports Writing
The View From Pluto (2002)
By: Terry Pluto
Review Date: 12 April 2006
Review By: Ryan
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Roger Angell, editor and writer for the New Yorker, has a short piece called "The Web Of The Game," reprinted in a couple of collections of his work (I know it is in Game Time and Once More Around The Park.) He and retired legend Smokey Joe Wood (then 92 years old) attended a now-legendary NCAA playoff game between Yale and St. John's, with Ron Darling pitching 11 no-hit innings for Yale before losing to Frank Viola and St. John's 1-0 in the 12th. All of Angell's stuff is worth reading, but that one - the mastery of the pitching performances, the contrast between youth and experience - is one of my favorites.
I don't really like Philip Roth, but his The Great American Novel is one of the funniest books, baseball or otherwise, that I have read. It kind of runs out of steam at the end, but it's still a hoot.
by mkwng on Feb 20, 2006 1:45 PM EST 0 recs
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I just started Veeck As In Wrech and I cannot believe I didn't read it before now. What an unbelievably great book -- a (mostly) true autobiography in the best picaresque tradition. The guy was a totally unique American treasure. Maybe I'll write a formal review of it when I'm done.
by mrich on Feb 20, 2006 6:43 PM EST 0 recs
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Feb 20, 2006 6:44 PM EST
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Well, the carpenter's union decided to show up and take up the whole back row, which made for some interesting questions and answers. I though Bouton handled himself very well. I could see where he might be painted as a jerk, but he was in the right here, in my opinion. The same could be said for Ball Four.
I was going to talk with him, but instead got into a long conversation with Bob Trumpbour, who is writing a book called "The New Cathedrals" about stadium construction politics.
by dgcambridge on
Feb 20, 2006 9:02 PM EST
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