Some additional baseball book roundups:
The Chicago Tribune: Willie Mays: The Life , The Legend; Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards; Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s; and Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the Golden Age of Baseball
- The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: Willie Mays; The Baseball Codes; High Heat; Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert; and It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Count. This one was written by a local schoolteacher who gives the books baseball grades. Mays is a “grand slam” while Lines is merely a double (and I think that’s being generous).
- The Lowell Sun: ’78, The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, And A Divided City; The Bullpen Gospels; and 162-0, The Greatest Wins in Red Sox History. It seems reviewer is quite the Crabby McBitchpants (wish I could take credit for that, but it comes a review on TelevisionWithoutPity.com) in that he doesn’t think very highly of any of the books he chose to cover. The headline tells it all: “Three books which fail to smack home run.”
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Good post. The teacher, Mark Hodermarsky, who rated books from Grand Slam to double has been teaching a class on baseball literature for close to 20 years at a High School in Ohio and is author of a book called Baseball's Greatest Writers.
Mr. Crabby is dead wrong on Baseball Gospels..it is a great book, both laugh out loud funny and poignant, a rare combination from a ball player.
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