From The Juice blog on Baseball Toaster:
Let’s start with a baseball book. You should read Buzz Bissinger’s (yeah, that guy) Three Nights in August. It’s not a perfect book, as Bissinger’s dislike of Moneyball elements demonstrate. Even if you have a sabermetrical view of the game, it is hard to deny the charms of the story he tells. His access to Tony La Russa provides for insight in the game I’ve never read anywhere else. While both Bissinger and La Russa have in common one majorly flawed viewpoint, (hatred of bloggers and delicious meat products, respectively) they are very talented people at what they do best. (NOTE: I listened to this as a book on CD and here’s the beef. The author should listen to his narrator’s work before it is released. In it, Bruce Sutter has his name pronounced like Sutter Home wine. I listened to a John Feinstein book on CD where the narrator made numerous mistakes, including referring to Jay Bilas as Buy-les. These are well-known sports figures, so before you hire some Broadway actor type to narrate, consider that they might need a spotter.)
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