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Alyssa Milano

Because you can’t beat a dead horse enough: Alyssa Milano: Since nobody cares anymore about Alyssa Milano as an actress anymore, she apparently has concluded that we should all care that she’s a big enough baseball fan to write a book about herself going to games, sell sports-related clothing to women, and seduce at least […]

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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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This piece from the McClatchy-Tribune News Service on Alyssa Milano’s new book makes me wonder: what percentage of writers have actually read Safe at Home? Seems they’re more interested in promoting the star than the author. Her book even features a basic glossary of colloquial baseball terms (such as “five-tool player” and “frozen rope”) and […]

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Maybe one of these days, when I run out of good baseball books to read, I’ll return to Alysaa Milano’s treatise. I wanted to be very careful and not judge too harshly. If her celebrity status can bring a few new fans to the game, maybe it’s worth it. But no. There are so many […]

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You knew this was coming. Why does Milano get to do a baseball book? What does she bring to the table other than being a “connected” fan? Is there an order form in the back of the book to order from her line of MLB-available clothing?

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What is it with all these confessions? First Jane Heller’s Confessions of a She-Fan, now this? Forgive my cynicism, but was this book really penned by the actor herself? So it would seem, since there’s no collaborative reference on the cover. Milano supposedly writes a blog on MLB.com (she also sells a line of baseball-themed […]

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