A sneak peek at the Sunday Times Book Review

May 21, 2010

Two for the price of one this weekend, as the Times publishes an overview of Howard Bryant’s The Last Hero (“Much of this has been told before — most vividly in Aaron’s autobiography, “I Had a Hammer.” Written with Lonnie Wheeler and published in 1992, it explores the tangled theme of baseball and race with cleareyed asperity and biting wit.”) and Bill Madden’s Steinbrenner bio, The Last Lion of Baseball (“riveting”). The latter review was written by Michael Shapiro, author of Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball From Itself. (Thanks to Bookshelf friend Greg Spira for the heads-up.)

The Washington Post also ran a review of The Last Hero (“beautifully written and culturally important”).


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