Several new titles arrived over the past week including:
- Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs’ Glory Years, 1870-1945
, by Randy Roberts and Carson Cunningham
- A People’s History of Baseball
, by Mitchell Nathanson
- Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick
, by Paul Dickson (Of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary fame)
The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs, by the brother-and-sister collaboration of Neal McCabe and Constance McCabe. This one was actually published late last year, but is very welcome nonetheless.
The Big Show is an extension of the 1993 publication of Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon, also produced by the McCabes. Dickson’s new biography on Veeck has to be on the short list of nominees for this year’s Seymour Medal and Casey Award. Nathanson’s release is the first “serious collective” history in some time. And Before the Curse is another look at the Cubs when they used to be decent on a regular basis. If they do manage to win the World Series somehow, I fear the Mayan predictions of the end of the world will come true. After all, what could top a Cubs’ championship? Might as well pack it in.
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