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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 24, 2016

June 24, 2016

NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on […]

Tagged as: amateur baseball, baseball analysis, baseball fiction, Bernard Malamud, ESPN, H.A. Dorfman, instructionals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Michel Lewis, Mike Matheny, Oakland Athletics, Pitching, Shoeless Joe Jackson, St. Louis Cardinals, Tim Kurkjian

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Re-review: The Last Best League

July 4, 2014

This year we mark the 10th anniversary of the release of The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream, by Jim Collins, which takes a sentimental look at life in the Cape Cod League, a high level of amateur ball that uses wooden bats as a precursor to professional ball. TLBL was the […]

Tagged as: amateur baseball, Cape Cod League, Jim Collins, The Last Best League

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Announcement: New book by Peter Morris

November 13, 2007

Peter Morris, author of the two-volume Game of Inches, has a new title coming out next March. But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1870, published by Ivan R. Dee, looks back at an innocent time before the game turned pro. From Publisher’s Weekly: Morris … explores the earliest days […]

Tagged as: 19th century baseball, amateur baseball, Baseball News, Peter Morris, professional baseball

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