Coming down the pike, Feb. 23, 2016

February 23, 2016 · 1 comment

Or is it “coming down the pipe?” That would make sense, too. Of course, it would have to be a wide pipe…

Been in conversation with Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News who does a marvelous job every year with his 30 baseball books in 30 days feature on his “Farther off the Wall” blog. We like to go back and forth on the new stuff coming out. He sent me a tentative list and I was pleased to find some titles I had not heard of, including

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VGYubgQML._AA160_.jpgI did a little more digging via Amazon — there is an amazing number of what can only be describe as “baseball romance” (i.e., porn) to be found — and came up with a few more titles that weren’t there the last time I check, but that will be the topic of a separate entry. Stay tuned.

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Tagged as: baseball biography, Dick Allen, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Tim Kurkjian

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1 Dennis Anderson February 23, 2016 at 10:09 pm

I'm looking forward to the Dick Allen bio. His autobiography, which is now 26 years old, was one of the better ones.

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