Review roundup, April 2

April 2, 2012

♦ Bill Jordan at Baseball Reflections on Tim Wendel’s Summer of 68.

♦ Tom Hoffarth kicked off his annual “30 book in 30 days” feature yesterday with Baseball Prospectus 2012. Today’s book is Trading Manny: How a Father & Son Learned to Love Baseball Again, by Jim Gullo. (Here’s another review from The Oregonian.)

♦ Sticking to the West Coast, here are three that ran in the Los Angeles Times: Imperfect: An Improbable Life, by Jim Abbott and Time Brown; Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, by Paul Dickson; and Damn Yankees, edited by Rob Fleder.

♦ James Baily posted this review of the novel, The Might Have Been, by JosephM. Schuester.

♦ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published this roundup of titles including the Veeck bio, Trading Manny, Driving Mr. Yogi, The Might Have Been, Imperfect, as well as Calico Joe, John Grishman’s new novel, and Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers From the Team at Baseball Prospectus. The feature includes single-paragraph reviews on several additional books.

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