This list appeared on the SABR listserve (?).
Thanks, to Greg Spira for compiling this extensive collection. Some of these review may be duplicate of what I’ve already posted and I have made no changes in style or contents to his list.
“Links to many, many reviews (not features) of new baseball books reviews from newspapers published around the country during the last few weeks. A few links may break rather quickly.” GS
Bruce Dancis’ annual overview of lots of baseball books in the Sacramento Bee
Katherine Powers’ review of four new baseball books in the Boston Globe
Allen Barra reviews 5 new baseball books for the SF Chronicle
A round-up of some of the new baseball books by the Chicago Sun-Times
A review of several new baseball books from Christianity Today
A review of Milton Jamail’s Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom:
A review of “Your Brain on Cubs,” which is not really about the Cubs
A review of Fay Vincent’s “We Would Have Played For Nothing”
Another review of the same book
And another, this time from Steve Wulf for the Wall Street Journal
A review of “Yogi: The life and Times of an American Original”
A review of “The Code,” about baseball’s unwritten rules
A review of a number of books focusing on baseball’s dark side
A review of Chief Bender’s Burden
A review of Richard Bradley’s new book on the Bucky Dent game
Another review of that book, this time from the Washington Post
A review – well, a supposed review- of Peter Morris “But We Didn’t Have Fun”
A real review of that book from Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post
Another review of “But We Didn’t Have Fun,” this time from the Providence Journal
And yet another review of But We Didn’t Have Fun from AM New York
A number of baseball books reviewed by Steven Cooke of the Hartford Courant
A review of the new Yankee Stadium books
Another set of reviews on the new Yankee Stadium books from the New York Daily News
A review of Jose Canseco’s Vindicated
A sort list of 5 new worthwhile baseball books
A review of Michael Holley’s new book on Terry Francona
A review of the Bill James Gold Mine 2008
Another review of that book from the Daily Herald
A review of Baseball’s Greatest Hit, a history of Take Me Out of the Ball Game
A new review of last year’s Soul of Baseball
A new review of last fall’s Playing with the Enemy
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