* A few good (baseball) books, 2004 edition

April 22, 2008

Recently came across this piece I did for ForeWord Magazine in 2004. Titles include

  • The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of over 7,600 Major League Players and Others
  • Busting ‘Em and Other Big League Stories
  • The Baseball Filmography: 1915 through 2001
  • Reel Baseball: Essays and Interviews on the National Pastime, Hollywood and American Culture
  • Is This Heaven: The Magic of The Field of Dreams
  • Saying It’s So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
  • Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories
  • Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates
  • The Boston Red Sox
  • Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove
  • The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History
  • Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
  • Safe by a Mile
  • The Era, 1947-1947: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World
  • The Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of ’41
  • The Cool Chick’s Guide to Baseball

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