Review roundup, March 11

March 11, 2014 · 1 comment

They’re starting to come in hot and heavy. Witness:

https://i2.wp.com/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1387410773l/18341819.jpg?resize=134%2C200John Rosengren, author of the The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball’s Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption, was arecent guest on WBUR’s Only a Game. OAG‘s host, Bill Littlefield included it in a trio of books in the Boston Globe.

Kostya Kennedy’s Pete Rose: An American Dilemma marks 25 years since the embattled athlete was banned by Major League Baseball. (And don’t get technical about the use of the word “banned”: you know damn well what I mean.) Among the reviews are this one from the Boston Globe by Allen Barra (no doubt, it will appear in other publications, too.) and this from USA Today. 

The Aspen Times posted this review of the novel High and Inside (not to be confused with Orlando Cepeda’s memoir.

Nine_Bucks_a_Pound_Cover_220_zps8f6e25c3.jpgFrom the Tampa Tribune, this review of James Bailey’s new novel, Nine Bucks a Pound.

Don’t know kosher this is (and not just because the writer is one of the few Jewish Major Leaguers), but Sam Fuld, of whom John Feinstein writes in Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball, writes this review for the Wall Street Journal, which you can read online only if you’re a subscriber.

John Quattrucci, a sports editor for several community newspapers in the heart of Red Sox Nation, picked a few of his favorite baseball books.

 

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1 James Bailey March 11, 2014 at 10:35 pm

Ron, Thanks for the mention. The link to the review on the Tampa Tribune site is: http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/novel-explores-temptations-ramifications-of-steroid-use/. I’ll also offer a plug for Russell Rowland’s book, High and Inside, mentioned above. It’s a baseball novel one might describe as being about more than baseball, as it’s about a retired player battling alcoholism.

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