This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 1 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, Weber 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 Moneyball: The Art of Winning […]
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published this piece on the author of the new Vin Scully biography. The Amazon Report on Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story
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White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen and sportswriter Mark Gonzales will sign copies of Gonzales’ book, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Heart-pounding, Jaw-dropping and Gut-wrenching Moments from Chicago White Sox History, on Thursday, June 25, at 6:30 p.m. at the Downers Grove Recreation and Fitness Center, 4500 Belmont Road, Downers Grove, IL The Amazon […]
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Time to play a little catch-up: From Pressboxonline.com, a Baltimore-sports oriented site, a review of Bert Randolph Sugar’s new coffee table book about the Hall of Fame. “[The author] left nothing out and I can’t think of a better way to educate those whom are grasping for a better understanding of baseball’s history than to […]
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With all the rave reviews Paul Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary has received this year, I wouldn’t be surprised to find his own name in the reference staple some day. This piece comes from the May13 edition of The Nation.
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King Kaufman conducted this Q&A with the new Berra Boswell. You can read it here or hear it here: http://media.salon.com/media/mp3/2009/03/conversations_barra.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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The New York Times’ Janet Maslin published this review of Larry Tye’s new biography of the great Paige. Upshot: “All the African-American luminaries had climbed to the top of their fields, but none did it with Satchel’s over-the-top style and charm,” Mr. Tye claims. “And none of the others had been seen up close by […]
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An audio interview, downloadable, as featured on Mike Silva’s New York Baseball Digest.
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On the FOX show On the Record with Greta van Susteren. VAN SUSTEREN: “Safe at Home,” a great new book. Did you have fun writing it? MILANO: I did. I had a lot of fun. I was a little terrified at first. Prior to the book, I had only written blog entries, you know, which […]
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Now that the event is going on, hereare a couple of reviews about the new book profiling the College World Series from the San Antonio Express-News website and the Greenville, NC, Daily Reflector.
Book Club Classics includes The Yankee Years among its suggestions for top men’s reads for the summer. The Yankee Years By Joe Torre What it is: Joe Torre’s tale of his years as manager of the Yankees. Why you should read it: Sure, Torre already wrote an autobiography and a self-help book, but this is […]
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Allen Barra, author of the new biography on Yogi Berra, gives his considered opinion on two other titles that deal with the Hall of Fame: Zev Chafets’ assessment of the problem of the Hall of Fame, and the quartet of NY Daily News writers on a pitcher who would have been a lock to earn […]
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Sorry, give me a minute here. The Mets just lost their game with the Yankees when Luis Castillo dropped a two-out POP UP that allowed two runs to score. TWO HANDS, dammit!! Anyway, my review of several books that encompass the Yankees and Mets during interleague weekend appear on the latest posting of Bookreporter.com. Titles […]
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Although I write a weekly hiaku for my newspaper on the week’s Torah reading, I rarely touch poetry. It’s too subjective.(Here’s my favorite, which I heard on an old Tony Kornhieser radio program: “Haikus can be fun /but sometimes they don’t make sense: /Refrigerator.” Hee.) Anyway, that said, here’s an article from the Hudson Reporter […]
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According to this item by Don McKee in the Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you have to buy a present for someone you really don’t like much, take a look at Selena Roberts’ unauthorized biography of Alex Rodriguez. According to the Associated Press, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez has been a major disappointment. Since […]
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Yes, according to this post from The Tao of Stieb, a Toronto-based blog. Last month, we had some time to kill at a Chapters megastore….What we were met with was depressing enough to make us literally (and I mean literally) recoil and walk away. The baseball section was a wall that was almost completely filled […]
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The Ventura County Star posted this review on Curt Smith’s new Vin Scully biography. Upshot: Some people say “God is in the details.” Others say “the devil is in the details.” With Smith’s writing both are present. Those of us who look forward to poring over every facet of Scully’s life won’t be disappointed; Smith […]
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer, this piece about a new biography on Bob Howsam by author Daryl Smith. I wonder if there was a reason the writer doesn’t actually mention the title of the book in the article? The Amazon Report: Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s
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“Three baseball books are discussed: A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime by the staff of the New York Daily News, and The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci.” You read and listen to the […]
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June 19, 2009
This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 1 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, Weber 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 Moneyball: The Art of Winning […]
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