Time to play catch-up:
From a rival site about baseball book reviews, this piece on Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and The Say Hey Kid (another of those books that uses words like “greatest” and “forever” in its title).- An oldie, but good: this review of The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Douglass Wallop, which was the basis of the musical Damn Yankees. And another classic, The Gashouse Gang, by John Heidenry, from the appropriately-named Go-Go-Rama blog.
- From the Chicago Sun-Times, a double review: Fay Vincent’s We Would Have Played for Nothing and Tom Swift’s Chief Bender’s Burden, both of which earn high marks.
- From the Boston Globe, a review by author Bill Nowlin on two Red Sox books: Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston’s Rise to Dominance, by Michael Holley, and Dynasty: The Inside Story of How the Red Sox Became a Baseball Powerhouse, by Tony Massarotti. “After the 2004 championship, there was a predictable deluge of more than 35 books inspired by the long-awaited triumph. After 2007, one knew not to expect nearly as many, but here are two that Bosox bibliophiles will likely find illuminating enough to merit some fairly easy and, given the second Series title, enjoyable reading.” And from Portland Press Herald, a look at Faithful to Fenway, by Michael Ian Borer.
- Since we haven’t said anything about Vindicated lately, here’s a look at it from our friends in the North, aka the Montreal Gazette.
- A “prequel” to Moneyball?
- Southcoasttoday.com, a Massachusetts site, posted this review of Richard Bradley’s Greatest Game.
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Re the Vincent book. These are horribly executed in my mind. I read a few chapters of the first and skimmed the second. They’re just 20 pages worth of unedited rambling. There’s no guidance, questions, etc. to shape them. It’s actually an embarrassing job.
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