* Baseball beach reading, via ESPN

An “annotated” list of several general sports titles from ESPN’s D.J. Gallo includes baseball books such as:

Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out” by Josh Pahigian. Hey, who says I’m going to strike out, jerk? I was a two-time Little League All-Star. Two times! Be a bit more complimentary with your title and perhaps I will consider getting your book. Not buying it, mind you, but borrowing a copy at my local library for free.
Yankee for Life: My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes by Bobby Murcer. Gross. This guy could probably use a shower and some clean laundry.
Dugout Wisdom: Life Lesson from Baseball by Dan Migala. If how to spit tobacco or spot hot chicks in the stands are the life lessons you seek, this is the book for you.
Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference by Cal Ripken Jr. It’s a good thing Ripken wasn’t No. 54 or 99 or something. This would have been a ridiculously long book.
Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston’s Rise to Dominance by Michael Holley. Finally! A book about the Boston Red Sox. You know what I would like to read? A book about Red Sox players who golf.
We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved by Fay Vincent. No doubt all the ex-players included in this book talk about how they donated all of their baseball income to charity.
Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball’s Most Intimidating Pitcher by Jonathan Mayo with a foreword by Roger Clemens. Soon to be followed by the book: Facing Clemens: Congressmen on Confronting Baseball’s Most Awesome Hero,” by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC
Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember by John Feinstein. This book follows the 2007 seasons of New York pitchers Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine. I can’t wait for the 2008 follow-up about Phil Hughes and Oliver Perez called Dying on the White: Two Pitchers, Countless Meatballs, One Season to Forget.
The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 — When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone by Mike Shropshire. I wasn’t alive in 1975, but my dad says that back then in the good old days, book titles stayed under 130 words.
Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective by Al Santasiere. Thankfully this is not a scratch-and-sniff book.
The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of ’78 by Richard Bradley. Wait a minute … I thought the Giants-Colts game in 1958 was the best game ever? Author fight! Author fight! They’ll draw their laptops at dawn at Starbucks.
The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors” by Chris Coste. Coste’s name wasn’t in the Mitchell report, so this book might actually have a surprising and inspirational story to tell.
The View from the Upper Deck by DJ Gallo. This book isn’t brand-new like the rest of these. But any book that has stayed entrenched in the top 350,000 of the bestsellers list for an entire year must be really, really good.