Bits and pieces

June 27, 2010

* The Book Corner posted this review of Stephen King’s Blockade Billy. Upshot: The book “will definitely satisfy Stephen King readers as well as those who don’t normally go for the sort of stories on which he made his reputation. And it’s closer to those kinds of stories than the story that fills out the book.”

While I enjoy much of King’s work — and at the risk of offending — I don’t think a truly objective person can pledge blind obeisance to any author. Some of his stuff is great, others, not so much. So when the critic says Blockade Billy “will definitely satisfy Stephen King readers, I say, I’ll make up my own mind, thanks.

* Blomberg.com posted a joint review of Howard Bryant’s Hank Aaron bio (“an elegant and eloquent volume…”) as well as Doug Glanville’s memoir (“sharp, provocative and insightful….”).

* SportsBlognet.com announces a new primer on Sabremetrics.

* Msn.foxsports.com ran this multi-book review, which includes the aforementioned Bryant and Glanville books, as well as Dan Epstein’s Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s; the preposterous Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball; and Dirk Hayhurst’s The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran.

* All the world’s a stage: Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaugnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino, published this review of Johnny Baseball, a musical play about a black ballplayer in the pre-Jackie Robinson days.

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