The Comic Book Story of Baseball: The Heroes, Hustlers, and History-Making Swings (and Misses) of America’s National Pastime
A brief one today. I fear these things are becoming unsustainable, but we’ll see.
I first came across the work of Alex Irvine with his short “speculative” piece, “Agent Provocateur,” about Moe Berg that appeared in a 2002 edition of Strange Horizons. But more recently he has released an entire book with his unique style with The Comic Story Story of Baseball.
Irvine hits all the high points, as well as some of the lesser known moments that may be unfamiliar to even the most knowledgeable students of the game. The illustrations of Coker and Smith are a bit dark, both in terms of mood and style, giving the book a somewhat “dystopian” graphic novel appearance. Whether that was by design or happenstance I hope to find out in an eventual “Bookshelf Conversation” with Irvine.
Suffice it so say, TCBSOB will appeal to those who find standard histories a bit dry, all due respect to those authors who spend years, if not decades researching and writing their texts.
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