Times marches on

June 17, 2022

One of these days I have to ask publicists, “what goes into getting a book reviewed in The New York Times” or something like the New York Review of Books?

Numbers vary as to how many books are published every year. One figure I’ve seen puts it at 4,000,000, another more than 3,00,000 but that is worldwide and includes anything that gets a ISBN number. Of course, a lot of these books would never be considered for consideration due to quality (have yet to see a self-published work in the Sunday supplement), to be very blunt.

I also wonder what just being in the Times would mean for sales, even if the book received a bad or middling review. Somehow I suspect that the vetting process is pretty strenuous, given the small amount of “real estate” afforded to arts in general.

This is a long way of getting to my subject: three baseball titles were included in the paper’s occasional roundup of sports books: Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant; The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit , by the film’s writer/director Ron Shelton (which won’t even be released until next month); and The Umpire is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self, by Dale Scott with Rob Neyer.

  The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit by [Ron Shelton] 

 

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