January 3? Already? Where did the year go?
From RoyalsReview.com, this list of “15 books for baseball fans—and some for other sports fans, too.” (Note: not necessarily new releases.)
Peter Dreier, co-author of Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America and Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers’ Rights and American Empire, published this opinion piece on Jim Bouton and Ball Four on CommonDreams.org.
From Neosportsinsiders, ““Sudden Sam” McDowell Chats about his Autobiography and Cleveland Baseball.”
Richard Peterson wrote about Roberto Clemente and W.P. Kinsella’s short story “Searching for January” for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Sports Illustrated‘s Mark Bechtel includes a lengthy portion of the new TV version of A League of Their Own in his story, “The Best Sports Shows, Movies and Books of 2022.”
Maybe it’s because I read so many books and see so many movies that I’m jaded, but I think Trouble with the Curve was one of the worst. Too many cliches and tired out tropes (the old has-been scout up against modern Moneyball-type stats heads, plus (spoiler alert) he is losing his sight and his hearing takes over in his evaluations’ the estrangement with his daughter who’s fighting the glass ceiling at work; the poor immigrant phenom up against the star teen who’s been pampered his whole life, yada, yada, yada. Anyway, Solzy at the Movies thinks “Trouble with The Curve Still Charms 10 Years Later” ( à chacun son goût).
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