The Toronto paper published this piece on its website, which mentions The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (albeit it, not the current edition) and Philip Lowry’s Green Cathedrals.
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Reviews from other sources
In addition to Opening Day, this is the time of year when the media jumps on the baseball book review bandwagon. Here’s a batch of the best, according to SFGate.com, including: As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber (Simon and Schuster; 341 pages; $26) Under the March […]
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From The Henry Wiggen Blog, this review of the W.P. Kinsella classic and Eric Role Greenberg’s novel.
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Another review of Bruce Weber’s book on umpires? This one is by Jim Bouton, and the author of the seminal Ball Four, who does his usual witty job. But as interesting as it is to get different takes, one wonders why the publication that employs Weber would publish more than one critique just over a […]
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The Baseball Reflections blog (“where Old School baseball meets Sabermetrics”) posted this review of Miracle Man: Nolan Ryan, The Autobiography (Macmillan 1993). Upshot: Ryan touches on many different aspects of baseball and life throughout the book and the fact that he wrote it while he was still in the middle of his career gives readers […]
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From SharedReveiws.com, this item on the classic Baseball Encylcopedia,published by Macmillan.
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Scott Simon reviews Bruce Weber’s new book on umpires. You can read an excerpt here.
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Ordinarily, I wouldn’t go back to a review of The Yankee Years; that so over. But I’ll make an exception for Roger Angell. The veteran sportswriter praises the work of both Torre and Verducci (“Verducci has range and ease; he’s a shortstop on the page.”) In the book, it’s a rush when you reach those […]
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This item from NBCBayArea.com opines that the “charming” actress might have adverse affects on some of the maor legaue pitchers she’s dated. Haven’t read the book yet, but do we really need another celebrity telling us why we should love the game? As if their endorsement is powerful enough to sway those who heretofore had […]
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Not quite a review, not quite an author profile, this piece from the Boston Herald is sort of a news story about the upcoming title. The focus starts with the altercation between Ramirez and Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick, “the final nail in No. 24’s coffin in Boston.”
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From the Bleeding Cubbie Blue blog (say that three times fast). Upshot: One of the best things about this book is the large number of photos and drawings showing knuckleball grips — you’ll be surprised at how many different ones there are, and most of them don’t use knuckles at all, but grips with fingernails. […]
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From our friend Greg Spira comes this link to LibraryJournal.com’s annual baseball feature. Among the usual share of biographies and memoirs, histories, and social commentaries are such themes as: Yet another biography about Yogi Berra, this one by homonymic author Allen Barra, and one on Walter O’Malley by Michael D’Antonio Ira Berkow’s bio of Lou […]
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It’s nice to know people are still reading the classics. This review of the Malamud novel comes from BaseballReflections.com
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From Beyond the Box Score, this review of Brad Snyder’s book of the baseball rebel.
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Baseball GB posted this review of Roger Angell’s 2004 collection. An amazing amount of the book can be read here, thanks to Google Books. Like any master storyteller, Angell’s work translates well to audio. This sample from audio.com comes from The Summer Game, another collection of his essays that appear mostly in The New Yorker […]
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Rick Cleveland’s biography (published by Lemuria Press) of Boo Ferriss, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox from 1945-50, as glowingly reviewed in the Clarksdale (MS) Press Register. Ferriss, a Mississippi product, won 21 and 25 games in his first two major league seasons, 12 the next year and never in double figures again.
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Another look at the new classic on shooting down baseball myths, by The Joy of Sox blog. Upshot: For those of you thinking “Who cares?” or “Why ruin a good story?”, stay away from this book. But if you’re as curious as I am about how Neyer went about his investigations and when he found […]
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