Bits and Pieces

August 22, 2007

From the Charleston Post and Courier, a review of HOME RUN: The Definitive History of Baseball’s Ultimate Weapon, by David Vincent (Potomac Books).

David Vincent hits it out of the park with “Home Run.” But he must be charged with an error.

The error being:

only two pages of the book deal with the steroid issue and its possible effect on home-run production.

So does every baseball book now have to come with a “warning?” Must performance enhancing drugs be part of the sports lexicon in the future for the document to be valid?

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From The Oklahoman and Channel 9 Web site, this review of The 100 Greatest Minor League Baseball Teams of the 20th Century, by Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright (Outskirts Press), which the writer calls, “A must-have for any good baseball library.”

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The Chicago Sports Review features a lengthy piece on Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded, by Gene Carney (Potomac Books).

According to writer Steven Appelhans:

This is definitely not a book for the average baseball fan, or even more passionate fans who have little interest in baseball’s history. Those who would get the most out of it are people highly interested in the past of either the White Sox or baseball in general.

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