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Good Sport's Book
Posted:
Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:50 pmby rjohaire
I'm looking for some good books for summertime reading.
There was a thread a while back, but can't find it.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Posted:
Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:03 pmby george barnard
Haven't read them, but they got some good reviews:
The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century by Jim Kaplan
Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy
Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball by Rebecca Alpert
Turbulent Seasons: Baseball in 1890-1891 by Charles Alexander
Bill
Posted:
Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:11 pmby george barnard
Some more:
Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-century St. Louis by Jon David Cash
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession by David Jamieson
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One by Mark Kurlansky
Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil by Jerome Charyn
Posted:
Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:19 pmby george barnard
...and one more
Fifty-nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had by Edward Achorn
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Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:17 pmby wesleyeugeneclark
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Baseball-Codes-Beanballs-Bench-Clearing-Unwritten/dp/0375424695[/url] This is a great book!
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Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:24 pmby bontomn
Four truly great books:
Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (baseball, focusing on the pennant race between the Yankees and th Red Sox)
The Teammates by David Halberstam (baseball, focusing on the friendship of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggion and Johnny Pesky)
The Majors by John Feinstein (golf, a behind-the scenes look at a year's worth of the four big tournaments)
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy (basketball, describing his senior season as point guard for The Citadel)
Posted:
Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:38 pmby mrharryc
Everyone assumes you mean sports books, but your note didn't indicate that; are the assumptions correct?
Posted:
Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:20 amby rjohaire
thx for the ideas - yes sports book is what I was looking for
Posted:
Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:24 amby bkeat23
Try Vegas :wink:
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Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:37 pmby The Last Druid
Good baseball books:
The Glory of their Times
Walter Johnson - Baseball's Big Train
Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
Wrigleyville
Cobb: A Biography
The Bad Guys Won