As I try to play some catch-up:
- From the Atlantic: “Why the Royals are a Better Baseball Team Than the Yankees.”
- Sports Illustrated‘s Tom Verducci gives us more Wilpon analysis.
- Marc Tracey published this review of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game
by Dan Barry. Upshot: “More than an Easter play, Barry’s pageant resembles a Seder (yes, of course, the game also took place on the first night of Passover). During Seder, Jews are instructed to imagine they themselves were present when Moses freed the slaves — much as the reader is supposed to fancy that he himself shivered in the stands. And like the Seder and its message of freedom, Barry’s heroic conjuring of the past is most persuasive when it honors values that, despite the holiness of the day, do not depend on the sacred.”
A New York Magazine Q&A with Howard Megdal, author of the new book, Taking the Field: A Fan’s Quest to Run the Team He Loves- From Hard Ball Times, this announcement of Third Base: The Crossroads, a new e-book about “all the great and not-so-great third basemen, the many who have passed through and over the hot corner, and even the many who conceivably might have played third base in the majors but never really did. It’s a terrific review of baseball history, from the perspective of one corner of the baseball diamond.”
- This site seeks to find the next great baseball movie as adapted from a great baseball book. Lots of good ideas, but a lot to go through.
is available on Amazon.com,
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