* Review: Anatomy of Baseball

June 23, 2008

From the Boston Globe

Upshot:

With the baseball season in full swing, what better time to reflect on the almost hypnotic hold that our national pastime maintains on our collective psyche? Despite recent talk of baseball’s decline, it is a sport with deep roots in our country’s past, and, for many readers, our own personal histories. With the Anatomy of Baseball, editors Lee Gutkind and Andrew Blauner celebrate that lineage with a tidy anthology of 20 essays sure to spark the imaginations of hardball neophytes and aficionados alike.

In fact, Anatomy of Baseball doesn’t do this collection justice. Too clinical, too antiseptic. “Baseball: Love Letters” might be more apt, since many of the essays belie, if not true love, at the very least an affection for or devotion to the grand game.

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