Tom Hoffarth’s supplements

May 4, 2011 · 2 comments

Tom Hoffarth adds a postmortem for his One-a-Days, including a ranking of the 30 titles. Best: Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game. Worst: Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingl. Median: 1961*: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase.

He also has an entry on “Extra innings: The books that didn’t make the list, and those just out of our reach,” which include, just to name a few,

  • Before the Machine: The Story of the 1961 Pennant-Winning Reds
  • 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
  • The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball
  • Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression

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1 Mark Ahrens May 6, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Ron,

I just finished Bottom of the 33rd…it was an extraordinary telling of a crazy, compelling game…really much more than just baseball this and baseball that….I really enjoyed it.

2 Anonymous May 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm

Thanks, Mark. I’ve heard other good things about it and look forward to reading it myself.

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