Because, why not?
- Baseball Reflections posted this review of David Halberstam‘s October 1964
, one of several baseball books from the author of “more important” works. Upshot:”This work is one of the most in depth looks at the behind the scenes make-up of a World Series match-up that has ever been written. While certainly not a quick read, it is extremely informative and is a must for anyone who considers themselves a fan of the history of the game. The book reads like a story and not once loses the attention of its reader.”
- Darryl Brock‘s 1990 If I Never Get Back
places second on this list of best time-travel novels posted on the Huffington Post.
- Bernie Williams discusses his new book, Rhythms of the Game: The Link Between Musical and Athletic Performance
, with ESPN (video).
- The Los Angeles Jewish Journal published this Q&A with Aaron Pribble, author of Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
.
- I do not know Wesley Fricks, but he has some major conspiracy-theory issues with just about all of Ty Cobb‘s biographers — including Al Stump, Charles Alexander, and Richard Bak — claiming that they misrepresented the Hall of Famer and besmirched his character. I’m no Cobb scholar (Fricks has been heavily involved with the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, GA, according to the bio on Bleacher Report). I really don’t want to get into that here, but it seems a bit far fetched that everything we’ve ever heard about Cobb for decades is a tissue of lies and that everyone had it out for him. But, to be honest, when I first saw the headline of Frick’s piece — “Ty Cobb, Hall of Famer, Betrayed by Writers for 50 Years. Player’s Legacy Ruined.” — I thought it was a Deadspin or Onion item.
Fred Lieb‘s Baseball as I Have Known It is now available as a Google book.- Whenever something like this happens, it serves as an invitation for authors like Jason Turbow (The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime
) to weigh in, as he did for Sports Illustrated recently.
is available on Amazon.com,
Comments on this entry are closed.