Review roundup, May 15

May 15, 2012

♦ In its Sunday edition, the Boston Globe published this roundup of sports book reviews, including A People’s History of Baseball by Mitchell Nathanson and Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick by Paul Dickson. Thumbs up for both books.

♦ The Lemuria Bookstore Blog offers mini-reviews for three baseball novels: The Art of Fielding, The Might Have Been, and Calico Joe. I’ve been hearing good things about The Might Have Been, which, on the surface, seems to carry that “missed opportunities” theme for so many stories about sports (and life). Still, when you think of all the hype TAOF has received, this one is swimming under the surface.

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