I have a little list

April 30, 2020

This would have happened anyway, to a degree, late March and April being the time when the media begins to offers lists of new and worthy baseball titles being released.

But with a lot of us having extra time on our hands, the collections are not limited to just those books coming out in 2020.

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Herewith a brief sampling:

Not surprisingly, many of the same titles — Moneyball, Ball Four, The Boys of Summer — keep popping up. I’m guessing any literate fan has already read these.

But this week alone I’ve received review copies of Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, by Mitchell Nathanson; 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, by Willie Mays and John Shea; Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask, by Jon Pessah; Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar, by Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel; and The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, The Chicago Cubs, & The Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, by Thomas Wolf. So for me, as much as I loved some of those oldies but goodies, with so many new books coming out all the time, I’m not big on re-reading. But I guess for some it’s like comfort food, and we all can use some of that right now.

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