♦ Day 12 of Tom Hoffarth’s 30/30 project: R.A. Dickey’s Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball.
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Reviews from other sources
In honor of opening week, The New York Times posted this piece in its Arts Beat blog in which several of their writers and editors pick their favorite baseball titles. Among them: George Vecsey, The Southpaw and The Boys of Summer Michiko Kakutani, Chief Book Critic, Underworld Tyler Kepner, Ball Four and Men at Work […]
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♦ Tom Hoffarth’s latest in his 30 books.30 days series: High Fives, Pennant Drives and Fermandomania: A Fan’s History of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Glory Years 1977-1981, by Paul Haddad. ♦They’re not exactly timely, but by waiting more than 40 years since the publication of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, this review on Paste has a […]
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♦ Tom Hoffarth’s latest in his 30 days/30 books series: Dodgers from Coast to Coast: The Official Visual History of the Dodgers. ♦The Los Angeles Times also ran this “straight” review on the Dodgers’ book.
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♦ Catching up with Tom Hoffarth’s 30 days/30 books project, we have reviews of Andy Strasberg’s Baseball Fantography, Under the Halo: The Official History of Angels Baseball, Jim Abbot’s Imperfect: An Improbable Life, and Paul Dickson’s Bill Veeck: Baseball Greatest Maverick. ♦ The Trentonian ran this review on The Rotation:A Season with the Phillies and […]
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♦ Tom Hoffarth’s newest installment in his 30 books/30days feature: The Baseball Stadium Insider: A Comprehensive Dissection of All Thirty Ballparks, the Legendary Players and the Memorable Moments, by Matt Lupica. ♦ The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published this piece on Shipwrecked: A People’s History of the Seattle Mariners, by Jon Wells.
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♦ The Hardball Times posted this review of Mitchell Nathanson’s A People’s History of Baseball. Nathan was also a recent guest on Only a Game, which you can hear here. ♦ The Washington Post ran this roundup of kids’ titles, which I am passing along only because I’m for anything that gets the little buggers […]
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Tom Hoffarth’s third installment in his 30 books/30 days series: The Greatest Show on Dirt, a novel by James Bailey. The Rafu Shimpo, Los Angeles’ Japanese daily newspaper, published this review of Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War, by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch […]
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♦ Bill Jordan at Baseball Reflections on Tim Wendel’s Summer of 68. ♦ Tom Hoffarth kicked off his annual “30 book in 30 days” feature yesterday with Baseball Prospectus 2012. Today’s book is Trading Manny: How a Father & Son Learned to Love Baseball Again, by Jim Gullo. (Here’s another review from The Oregonian.) ♦ Sticking […]
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I had mentioned Tom Hoffarth’s annual “30-books-in-30-days” project for the LA Daily News in an earlier entry today, not knowing that he posted this preview column (in which he was kind enough to give the Bookshelf a nod). Asa bonus, his entry has links to all the books he’s covered in the past, from 2008-2011, […]
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R.A. Dickey has a reputation as a renaissance man. He’s a good speaker, has many interests that go beyond the standard jock topics. So when I heard he was writing a book, I was looking forward to it. But now, judging by some items I’ve seen — which I know is unfair — it appears […]
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James Bailey posted this review of Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan on the Baseball America website. Upshot: “This is a well-researched, fascinatingly told tale of two super powers whose shared passion for baseball wasn’t enough to maintain the peace, though it did help to restore it in […]
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ForeWord Reviews carries a review of Robert Fitts’ latest book, Banzai Babe Ruth, in its current issue. Looking forward to reading this one on the near future.
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Richard Johnson, curator of The Sports Museum in Boston and author, co-author, or editor of several baseball titles including: The American Game; Baseball. Ethnicity, and The American Dream, Red Sox Century, DiMaggio, An Illustrated Life, and Ted Williams, A Portrait in Words and Pictures, posted this piece on Facebook today. I have taken the liberty […]
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It’s kind of neat to read critiques about baseball media from sources you don’t expect. Like this review of the film version of Moneyball from TheHindu.com. Unfortunately, the picture came up empty at the Oscars. Oh, well.
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James Baily published his list of top ten baseball books on Baseball America. His choices include, in order: The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach (currently ranked #18 on Amazon) Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game, by Dan Barry Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of […]
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As many of you know, I serve as editor of the SABR Bibliography Committee quarterly newsletter. The most recent issues (Nov. 2011), features reviews on Under Pallor, Under Shadow: The 1920 American League Pennant Race That Rattled and Rebuilt Baseball, by Bill Felber; 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in […]
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Someone who doesn’t think The Art of Fielding is Abner Doubleday’s gift to baseball. Or something like that; it’s all about the metaphors. Richard Peterson, an author and editor of books on the national pastime, published this critique in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which starts off The celebration of “The Art of Fielding” as the […]
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Now that we’re headed into the cold dark days, it’s time to cozy up with some baseball reading. This serves a few purposes. For one thing, it keeps your mind on the game. Secondly, with all this time, you can branch out and pick up a few titles you either didn’t have time for it […]
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February 10, 2012 · 2 comments
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I have a bit of backlog I’d like to clear, so here goes. * We’ll have to agree to disagree. One card collector can’t stand the new 2012 Topps series. Another calls it the best one yet. What do you think? * LibraryJournal.com posted this piece reviewing […]
Tagged as: Casey Award, Dirk Hayhurst, Hank Greenberg, Jim Brosnan, Joe DiMaggio, Michael Lewis, The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, Year The Yankees Lost the Pennant
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