Best baseball books: One critic's opinion

September 4, 2007

John Marshall, book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, recently offered this list of his favorite baseball titles for 2007:

  • Crazy ’08, by Cait Murphy
  • The Psychology of Baseball, by Mike Stadler
  • Senior Year, by Dan Shaughnessy
  • Tales From the Seattle Mariners Dugout, by Kirby Arnold
  • Baseball Haiku,edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura
  • Playing America’s Game, by Adrian Burgos Jr.
  • Dreaming Baseball, by James T. Farrell
  • Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample

All good choices.The only one I question is Tales. Sports Publishing LLC has printed at least  one version for almost every major league team, mostly composed of anecdotes about the players, sometimes under the imprimatur of a personality associated with the specific team. You really have to be a fan to get behind these titles, so I won’t quibble too much here.

 

 

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1 Jason P. September 4, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Thanks for the stop by. Excellent website for baseball. I mix it up a bit, due to the few readers I have, therefore, baseball, though a passion, is not the sole subject of interest. I’ll have to add you to the blogroll

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