♦ As mentioned in a previous post, the period around opening day is full of reading suggestions for greater and lesser fans of the game. Here’s one from the Chicago Tribune citing the baseball works of Brashler, Plimpton, and Updike (sorry, paywall).
♦ Here’s another: The Economist published “Six Great Books About Baseball,” which includes Fifty-Nine in ’84; Eight Men Out; A Well-Paid Slave; You Gotta Have Wa; Moneyball; and Ball Four. One of the things you’ll notice is that the headline doesn’t claim these to be the “best” books (sound familiar?). Another is that none of these have been published in the last ten years, with Eight Men Out going all the way back to the 1960s, so nice mix “timeless classics.” Finally, I found it charming that the lists include the book prices in both dollars and British pounds.
♦ From WRAL.com, “Retired Duke psychology and neuroscience professor Harris Cooper was inspired to write Finding America in a Minor League Ballpark: A Season Hosting for the Durham Bulls” after spending a summer at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.”
♦ From Case Western Reserve: “Celebrate the Cleveland Guardians opening day with Cleveland’s pre-eminent baseball expert and fan, Scott Longert, at a “Hometown Heroes” event presented by the Maltz Performing Arts Center and the Baseball Heritage Museum. The event will take place Tuesday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Maltz Center, located at 1855 Ansel Road. Longert is the author of several books about the Indians.
♦ Several baseball items from The New Yorker, including “Mookie Betts Makes Baseball Fun Again“; “It’s Shohei Ohtani Season in. L.A.“; and a review of Kevin Baker’s The New York Game.
♦ Speaking of New York, The Tribune News Service syndicated this piece on Baker’s latest: “A new book shows how much New York and baseball need each other.”
♦ And just across the river, from New Jersey Monthly, “Baseball Legends Offer Wisdom for Young Players in Book by Former Montclair State University Player: Billy Pinckney self-published Passion Prevails to help aspiring baseball stars avoid some of the pitfalls he faced.”
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