A trip to the bookstore: USA Today Sports 2011 and SI‘s salute to Fenway Park

December 1, 2011

Found of a couple of interesting items at the local B&N.

The first was USA Today‘s annual sports yearbook (sorry, couldn’t find a picture of the cover on-line). It has all the usual info: lots of stats and standings, capsule news roundups, photos, etc. It carries a cover price of $7.99.

My main bugaboo was the placement of the section on baseball. I don’t care what the polls say, it’s still one of the top three pro sports. So why is it buried in the back? I don’t recall the exact order, but it’s preceded by just about everything: college and prof basketball and football, auto racing, even tennis. It’s definitely not alphabetical. So I wonder what the editorial process was that “demoted” baseball to such a poor location.

Sports Illustrated came out with one of its commemorative issues, this one celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park (okay, so they’re a tad early; guess they wanted to be considered as a stocking stuffer).

It’s about what you would expect from SI — a nice little history of the ballpark, packed with photos, not exclusively baseball and worth the $9.99. And for a change, about half of the material has to come from outside the publication’s archives, since it debuted some 50+ years after Fenway opened its gates.

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