* Round-up reviews: SFGate

April 7, 2009

In addition to Opening Day, this is the time of year when the media jumps on the baseball book review bandwagon.

Here’s a batch of the best, according to SFGate.com, including:

  • As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber (Simon and Schuster; 341 pages; $26)
  • Under the March Sun: The Story of Spring Training, by Charles Fountain (Oxford University Press; 322 pages; $24.95)
  • Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball From Itself, by Michael Shapiro (Henry Holt/Times Books; 320 pages; $26)
  • The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie, by Ira Berkow (Triumph Books; 253 pages; $24.95)
  • The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, by Ron Darling (Alfred A. Knopf; 288 pages; $24.95)
  • Baseball Prospectus 2009,, edited by Christina Kahrl and Steven Goldman (Plume Books; 628 pages; $21.95)
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