* Bits and pieces
April 2, 2008
- A review of the new Michael Holley book Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston’s Rise to Dominance from the Providence Journal.
Another (!) new book regarding the Sox — albeit turning back the clock 30 years — is Richard Bradley’s The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of ’78 as reviewed in The Washington Post. As I’ve said in the past, one can cause a great deal of controversy by employing such words as Best, Greatest, All-Time, etc. in the title. The book was recently excerpted by ESPN’s on-line “book club.”- The Los Angeles Times reviews Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier supplemented with a profile of the author, Milton H. Jamail.
- Former ESPN writer Dan Shanoff shows a little nepotism in calling his buddy Rob Neyer’s new book “your 2008 baseball must-read.” He also calls Neyer “the single most influential online-sports columnist of all time.” And you know how I feel about those kind of superlatives, even though I agree that Neyer’s latest the Big Book of Baseball Legends — is one of the most provocative pieces I’ve read in a long time . I’ll be writing a review in the near future, along with an interview with the author.
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