Review — Yankees, Red Sox books

<p>Appeared on Bookreporter.com in 2005</p>

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=476,height=695,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/faithful.jpg”><img title=”Faithful” height=”219″ alt=”Faithful” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/faithful.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Michael Kun, co-author of <em>The Baseball Uncyclopedia</em>, made a particularly astute observation about the state of baseball literature over the last few years. Go into a bookstore, he writes, and you will find more often than not:<br />&quot;Books about the Yankees.<br />Books about the Red Sox.<br />Books about the Yankees <em>and</em> the Red Sox.<br />Books about players who played for the Yankees.<br />Books about players who played for the Red Sox.<br />Books about players who played for the Yankees <em>and</em> the Red Sox.<br />And, depending upon where you live, a book or two about your local team.&quot;<br /><br />It’s not much of an exaggeration. Following their first World’s Championship in almost 90 years, more than a dozen titles acknowledging the Boston Red Sox’s accomplishment hit the shelves.</p>

<p>Read the two-part review from Bookreporter.com.</p>

<p><a href=”http://bookreporter.com/features/050422-baseball.asp”>Part 1</a></p>

<p><a href=”http://bookreporter.com/features/050527-baseball.asp”>Part 2</a></p>

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