LA Daily News sportswriter Tom Hoffarth, a sportswriter/blogger for the LA Daily News, has undertaken the task of highlighting 30 baseball books during the month of April.
In his first entry on his entertaining “Farther off the Wall” blog (well, it’s almost an anagram of his name), he explains his project:
Baseball books by the dozens come out this time of year. And we’re not complaining.
Do some kind of Google search, or even on one on Abebooks.com, and baseball would be the sport that has been written about more than any other.
It never seems to run out of material.
With the flow of baseball books sliding headfirst into our mailbox, plus the ones we’ve come across on the shelves of the local stores (online as well), we’ve tried to narrow it down to the top 30 books that have come out this spring — that’s the parameter we’re working with here — and we’ll give it some kind of quick review. Only the ones we feel are worth checking out will be included.
So far, Hoffarth as posted
- 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out
- Baseball’s Greatest Quotations, by Paul Dickson
- The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
- My Bat Boy Days, by Steve Garvey
- Change Up
- Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots
- The Code: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct
- Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies and Everything Else
- The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made It to the Big Leagues After 11 Years in the Minors, by Chris Coste
There are still 21 more days to go, so don’t forget to check back.
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