It’s not a baseball book, but it got enough attention from Phil Birnbaum to link it to sabrmetrics, so here it is.
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Reviews from other sources
From the Suite101.com folks. Includes non-fiction, fiction, and “bullpen” (whatever that means) choices.
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From the Joy of Sox blog.
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This one of five top choices comes from The Washington Post Book Blog, Shortstacks.
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Via Eye on Sports Media, a blog that features “News, information, and commentary on the sports media industry.”
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The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram ran this piece on Josh Hamilton’s new book, which is receiving great praise, especially locally. Hamilton, by the way, Hamilton won a Players Choice Award on Tuesday as the American League’s Most Outstanding Player. He batted .304 with 32 homers and an AL-best 130 RBIs. I’m almost glad his book came […]
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American Thinker ran this review of Harvey Frommer’s latest book. Upshot: If you love the Yankees or simply have an abiding interest in baseball, this book will provide you with many pleasurable hours of recalling memories through its many pictures and loads of interesting tidbits and anecdotes about our most storied baseball team and its […]
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From the One Minute Book Reviews blog, this mini-rev of a cuh-lassic. Upshot: “…written for adults but likely also to appeal to many teenagers.”
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RotoRob.com ran this review of Josh Hamilton’s new book, chronicling the substance abuse problems he battled, and hopefully and seemingly, mastered. In a nutshell: Whether it is a sad story with a happy ending, a story of what not to do in life, or just a story of how life can deal you many obstacles […]
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From Blogcritics Magazine, this review of Adam Beechen and Manny Bello’s new black-and-white graphic novel, Dugout, using the always amusing baseball/prison break theme {“Dug out,” get it? Har.). Upshot: Like most caper stories, Dugout is 80% build-up and 20% bang.
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From Nonfiction Comics, this piece on the graphic novel, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow.
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The book I wish I had written, reviewed on NewBaseballApparrel.com. You can read some samples of the book here.
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The Delaware County Daily Times published this review of Rich Westcott’s latest ode to the Phillies.
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The Chicago Sun-Times posted this extensive article on the Louisville Slugger Museum in, well, Louisville And when you go, bring me back a souvenir.
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Posted the second list before the first, so here it is: Ball Four (Jim Bouton, 1970) | This book changed everything about how we cover and view sports and the people who play them. It also almost got me and my friend Prisby thrown out of sophomore English because we kept reading passages out loud […]
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MyrtleBeachOnline’s sports columnist Sean Horgan offered a list of 20 great sports books, including the following baseball titles, listed in his order: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, (Bill James, 1986) This book changed the way many people looked at baseball, encompassing history, anecdotes and statistical analysis. The Great American Novel (Philip Roth, 1973) Roth […]
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Talk about sub-genres. How about a baseball mystery novel? This review comes from Mystery-Books.com. Upshot: Fans of baseball novels will undoubtedly be thrilled with Green Monster and overlook the flaws that make this mystery no better than average. Talk about damning with faint praise…
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is available on Amazon.com,
* Book Review: Dropping the Ball
November 4, 2008
Bill Jordan of BaseballReflections.com critiques Dave Winfield’s “how-to-fix-it” title. Upshot: Overall, Winfield presents a very interesting argument and while some of his proposed bandages to this problem may be a bit much, especially at this time, he may be pointing the baseball world in the right direction. While his issues may have to take a […]
Tagged as: Dave Winfield, Dropping the Ball
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