One of the saddest books your likely to read this year and, hopefully, for the foreseeable future, is S.L. Price’s Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America.
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 17. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of […]
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This review comes from Sawxheads, a Red Sox-centric blog. And guess what? It’s a glowing review! But the part that caught my my was this: In the interview with WEEI, Pedroia’s words were very encouraging. He spoke about writing this book for every generation, and it speaks volumes to all the little leaguers wearing #15 jerseys. “I […]
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Been meaning to do this since the beginning of the season. The best laid plans, and all that. Anyway, the missus has been complaining that she keeps tripping over these (mostly) thick volumes, so here goes. The volumes share a theme: analyzing the previous year. For some, however, this is only done as a predictor […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 17. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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Thanks to our friend Greg Spira for his list of links to baseball book reviews, interviews, and features. One of the hot titles this year is As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber of The New York Times. In addition to two (!) reviews in his own […]
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The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime, by Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red. Knopf, 2009. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the topic du an in baseball lit is steroids/PED. No less than four major titles consider the science and those who use performance […]
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From the Salt Lake Tribune. Upshot: Open and book anywhere and begin. “The fun is to know what’s on the inside,” he said. “That was story I wanted to tell.” Bert Sugar’s Hall of Fame is a tale well told.
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From TrueblueLA (“Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled”), this review of the new Strawberry autobio.
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And why not. Remember Joe Charbonneau? The article also links to an excerpt from the book. “My life in the game?” Must be a thin book.
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by Larry Tye (Random House). As appears on Bookreporter.com.
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is available on Amazon.com,
* Too much, too late?
July 25, 2009
This two-page overview of three Yankees titles — The Yankees Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci; A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, by Selena Roberts; and American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime, by Thompson, Vinton, O’Keeffe and Red — appears in this weeks New […]
Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Joe Torre, New York Yankees, PED, Roger Clemens, sterodis
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