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The Truth, The Lies, and Everything Else, Fireside, 2008. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.527231&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] from youtube.com I have been meaning to review this one for awhile but a comment submitted by a Bookshelf reader about Fay Vincent’s We Would Have Played for Nothing prodded me to get the lead out. “BaseballinDC” wrote: Re the Vincent book. These are […]
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from the Web presence of the Arizona Daily Star
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The Wall Street Journal also ran this review by Pete Hausler of the new bio on the Yog by Carlo Devito. In sifting through [more than 4,000 sources], Mr. DeVito makes what seems initially like a strange choice: He includes many stories, anecdotes, and quotes that are now widely considered to be apocryphal (his word). […]
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Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960, by Jim Reisler (Carroll & Graf) I thought I had addressed this book when it came out, but evidently I was think about Reisler’s previous book, A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame. To me, “Best” is on a par […]
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Baseball’s Grand (and not-so-grand) Finales, by Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan (Acta Sports, 2008). Interesting in concept, but falling short on execution, the authors no doubt wanted to convey the feelings of exhilaration (for the winners) and agony (for the losers). Chuck and Kaplan (no relation) lead off with a chapter on pennant races and, […]
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From Salon.com’s resident sports guy King Kaufman (I’d like to see his birth certificate), this review/profile of Neyer and his latest.
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From doteduguru.com. Upshot: This book was absolutely fantastic and one that I would highly recommend to anyone that is either a fan of the game or loves statistics.
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