Coming down the pike: Update

November 14, 2019

Building on the previous entry about baseball books on the horizon, here’s a quick update on some additional titles announced since then, according to Amazon and in no particular order (from November into 2020).

  • https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51i2Ehth6CL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpgSo Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets, the Best Worst Team in Sports, by Devin Gordon (Harper, August 2020)
  • How Life Imitates Sports: A Sportswriter Recounts, Relives, and Reckons with 50 Years on the Sports Beat, by Ira Berkow (Sports Publishing, August 2020)
  • Beckett Baseball Almanac of Baseball Cards & Collectibles 2020 (July 2020)
  • The New York Yankees in Photographs: A Visual History of the Team, New York Daily News (Triumph, June 2020)
  • Mr. Met: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became Like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers, by Jay Horwitz with Steve Kettman (Triumph, May 2020)
  • The Milwaukee Brewers at 50, by Adam McCalvy (Triumph, May 2020)
  • Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity, by Jennifer Domino Rudolph (Ohio State University Press, May 2020)
  • Buddha Takes the Mound: Enlightenment in Nine Innings, by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (St. Martin’s Essentials, May 2020)
  • A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball, by Anthony Castrovince (Sports Publishing, May 2020)
  • Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star, by Kay Williams (University of Nebraska Press, May 2020)
  • The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, by Thomas Wolf (University of Nebraska Press, May 2020)
  • https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EP3V1ijnL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpgBouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, by Mitchell Nathanson (University of Nebraska Press, May 2020)
  • The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife, by Brad Balukjian (University of Nebraska Press, April 2020)
  • Mike Hargrove and the Cleveland Indians: A Baseball Life, by Jim Ingraham (Gray & Company, November 2019)
  • Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction: Six Publishers, with a Directory of Stories, 1935-1957, by Michelle Nolan (McFarland, May 2020)
  • If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays: Stories from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box, by Bob Elliott (Triumph, April 2020)
  • Name That Ballplayer: The Ultimate Baseball “Whodunnit?” Quiz Book, by Wayne Stewart (Skyhorse, April 2020)
  • The Subway Series: Baseball’s Big Apple Battles And The Yankees-Mets 2000 World Series Classic, by Jerry Beach (Triumph, Sports Pub;ishing, April 2020)
  • Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A’s, by Dale Tafoya (Lyons, April 2020)
  • Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers, by Robert Fitts (University of Nebraska Press
  • Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between, by Eric Nusbaum (Pubic Affairs, March 2020)
  • Dick Bremer: Game Used: My Life in Stitches with the Minnesota Twins, by Dick Bremer with Jim Bruton (Triumph, March 2020)
  • Bob Chandler’s Tales from the San Diego Padres Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Padres Stories Ever Told, by Bob Chandler with Bill Swank (Sports Publishing, March 2020)
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