Review roundup, June 20

June 20, 2013

bbiconOverlooked this one: Former NY Mets favorite RonSwoboda contributed a review of Allen Barra’s Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball’s Golden Age to the New York Times Sunday Book section on June 2. (One reader wrote to complain that Swoboda didn’t mention Duke Snider in his article. Perhaps, but the book was about Mantle and Mays after all; It the book wasn’t called, like the Terry Cashman song, “Willie, Mickey, and the Duke.”)

By the way, in case you were wondering, this is what it looks like when you leave a copy of Mickey and Willie out in the rain:

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bbicon The same issue of the Sunday review carried this review of Robert Weintraub’s The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age.

bbiconSmartfantasybaseball posted this “efficient” review of Jonah Keris’ The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First.

bbiconPaul Hagen posted two reviews on his baseball book blog, hosted on MLBblogs.com.

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