♦ Bailey’s Baseball Book Reviews posted this one on Grisham’s Calico Joe. Upshot: “We’ve now had baseball tales from two of the literary world’s heavyweights in the past three years. Both have failed to live up to expectations.” [The other one is Stephen King’s novella, Blockade Billy.]
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Bailey also offers this on Just a Minor Perspective: Through the Eyes of a Minor League Rookie, another in the blossoming line of memoirs written by active pitchers (and I still count Dirk Hayhurst — with which Eyes draws the inevitable comparisons — as falling into that category). This one comes from the mind of Eric Pettis, a former member of the Williamsport Crosscutters, the Phillies’ short-season Single A affiliate. Upshot: “[T]he rookie effort from this rookie minor leaguer provides insight into what every young man who signs a contract faces.”
♦ I guess this qualifies: Rob Neyer offers this for the Hot Corner Book Club on Dickson’s Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick: “Just finished. Highest recommendation.” No, I didn’t forget the link. That’s the extent of the “review.”
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