Review roundup, May 16

May 16, 2012

♦ Macleans, Canada’s version of Time magazine, ran this review of Harvey Araton’s Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball’s Greatest Gift. Upshot: Well, there isn’t any per se. “After years of steroid scandals and cold-hearted business decisions, Araton has given us an old-fashioned story about the redemptive power of baseball.” The writer also calls Berra ” the ultimate lovable grumpy old man.” Hey, you don’t know him like that to say such a thing, eh? (It’s all right, I’m part-Canadian; I can say that without offending.)

♦ OnMilwaukee.com posted this on Paul Dickson’s Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick.

♦ In the meantime, Bailey’s Baseball Book Reviews goes old-school, re-examining Veeck’s 50-year-old memoir, Veeck As in Wreck: The Chaotic Career of Baseball’s Incorrigible Maverick, written with Ed Linn.

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