The topic on the March 28 Internet broadcast of What’s on Second included baseball anthologies, either by a single writer, or covering a specific topic, or just the game in general. The only qualification was they could not be coffee-table books; they had to be something small enough to bring to the ballpark so they can be read in between innings and/or during pitching changes and rain delays.
- The Fireside Book of Baseball
, edited by Charles Einstein
- Baseball: A Literary Anthology
, edited by Nicholas Dawidioff, author of The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
- The Home Run Game: An Anthology of Sportswriting on Baseball’s Most Remarkable Home Runs from Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire
, edited by Dick Wimmer
- Fielder’s Choice: An Anthology Of Baseball Fiction
, edited by Jerome Holtzman
- The Armchair Book of Baseball
, edited by John Thorn
- Baseball Fantastic
, edited by W.P. Kinsella (author of Shoeless Joe
, and many other baseball short stories.)
You can listen to the show here. By the way, that might be my last appearance on the show for awhile: my softball season starts next week and, wouldn’t you know it, there’s a game every Monday through the end of May.
is available on Amazon.com,
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