Lisa Iannucci at The GetMoreSports site included four baseball titles among her “Anticipated Sports Books of 2016.” Is it picayune to note that “anticipated” does not mean “looked forward to,” but merely “expected?”
Anyway, the titles include (with the writer’s commentary):
DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers by Tony Castro is due out in March and examines the Yankee glory days and the bond, and possibly animosity, between two of the most famous names to play the game.- Another baseball book to hit the shelves in March and seems like a great read this year is The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball, by award-winning baseball historian Glenn Stout. Stout has new information on the most controversial deal in baseball.
- As a Mets fan, it was tough to watch Lenny Dykstra’s fall from a successful baseball career to his time in the slammer for bankruptcy fraud. I’m putting his book, Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge, which tells it all from his perspective on my summer reading list.
- Last summer, I went to Cooperstown, New York and visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame, where they had an entire section devoted to women in baseball. It was awesome. So I’m equally excited about the Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball which will come out in July.
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