Review roundup, July 23

July 23, 2012 · 1 comment

* The New York Times published this review about Ballplayer: Pelotero, a film documentary about baseball in the Dominican Republic. Upshot: “Forget feel-good boys-of-summer tales. This film shows a shady business in which scouts and the teams they represent try to manipulate teenage players, and to some extent the players do some manipulating of their own.”

* From the Long Island Press, another “lite/light” review on The Art of Fielding. Upshot: “It’s really a funny, inspired look at success, failure and romance, which spans Buddhism and Herman Melville as well as America’s pastime.”

* Here’s an interesting tack and an honest approach: admitting up-front that the books are basically just “okay.” Titles include Ball Four, The Code, and Bottom of the 33rd.

* “The Library of Congress recently released a list of 88 Books that Shaped America, which are part of a current exhibit at the Library,” notes the Baseball Continuum, which begs to differ. They’re right; how that gets in and not Ball Four is beyond me. Well, at least they didn’t pick The Art of Fielding.

 

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1 Jeff Forster July 28, 2012 at 10:07 pm

Thanks for the nod to my collection of OK baseball books.  I did go on a few days later to post a list of baseball books I really like.  http://competentparent.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-collection-good-baseball.html

From my quick reading here, I fear that these might not be the “right books”, but I got something good out of each of them.

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