♦ The Atlantic published this piece by Luke Epplin on Tony La Russa’s new book, The Last Strike. The main complaint in the piece seems to be that a) La Russa doesn’t dish the dirt very much; and b) his role as a great strategist may be well-deserved, but too much detail doesn’t make for great reading.
Looking at Epplin’s head shot, he strikes me as a younger person (unless it’s an old photo) and as such I wonder, like the five year old who grows up suckling on an iPad, if he’s just used to the kind of stuff put out by a Jose Canseco and that ilk. Epplin notes that La Russa has pretty much nothing but nice things to say about his players (often the same thing for each one), but that’s what bios were like “back in the day.”
♦ This may be more in the form of a preview rather than a review, but Jon Heyman is calling out former Cy Young reliever Eric Gagne who claims in his new book, Game Over: The Story of Eric Gagne, that the vast majority of his Dodger teammates used Human Growth Hormone. The book is being published in French (Gagne is a native Quebecer), so perhaps something was lost in translation? (Heyman served as Jon Miller’s co-writer on Confessions of a Baseball Purist.)
♦ TheTrades ran this review of the Mets 50th Anniversary DVD set. If someone wanted to make a gift of this to me, I wouldn’t turn it down. JustPressPlay combined a review of the Mets’ set with one marking the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park.
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