An ambitious task, but Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News is taking up the challenge once again as he highlights an eclectic group of titles for 2010 with a mix of humor and insight in his blog, “Farther off the Wall.”
Today’s pick is Tim Salmon’s Always an Angel: Playing the Game with Fire and Faith.
The first 10 titles, counting Salmon’s, include
- The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List: 162 Things You Must See, Do, Get & Experience Before You Die, by Robert Santelli and Jenna Santelli
- Baseball for the Utterly Confused, by Ed Randall
- High Heat: The Secret History of The Fastball And The Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time, by Tim Wendel
- Baseball Prospectus 2010, Edited by Steve Goldman and Christina Kahrl
- Kiss It Good-bye: The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, by John Moody
- The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing & Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pasttime, by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca
- The Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball’s Most Essential and Inane Debates, by Josh Pahigian
- 1921: The Yankees, The Giants & The Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York, by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg
- The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Life Without, by Robert Schnakenberg
Check the sidebar for the rest of the month for Hoffarth’s book-du-jour.
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