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We are happy to announce the release of our second annual book: The Bus Leagues Experience Volume 2. Like our first release, The Bus Leagues Experience Volume 2 is a collection of interviews and conversations with some of the brightest prospects in Minor League Baseball as well as coaches, media personnel, fans, and other people associated with the lower levels of professional baseball. Volume 2 expands on our original work by featuring the voices...
Last week I finally saw Moneyball. While the baseball community knows Moneyball for its unique perspective on team building, Moneyball is also unique as a baseball movie. As in the book, Moneyball the movie focuses on the struggle of the Oakland A’s to rebuild after the departure of Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon, and Jason Isringhausen. While the story of plucky underdogs who make the playoffs after their superstars leave the team is not unusual...
For someone who writes a lot about baseball, I don’t read too many books on the sport. Although I have my favorite books such as “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch” and “Boys of Summer”, my baseball reading is usually pretty sparse. This year however, I’ve been on a bit of a baseball literary kick. Before the season I read Jonah Keri’s “The Extra 2%”, the story about the assembly of the Tampa Bay...
So, I read yesterday that Craig Robinson, creator of the fantastic infographics site Flip Flop Flyball, has published a book. This is great news, because it was evident from day one that Robinson’s graphics were something special – a new way of looking at the sport we all take for granted. I say “take for granted” because I did not know until today that Robinson came to the game late in life, and fell...
It always feels nice when someone gets you. We’ve toiled in near-complete obscurity here at Bus Leagues for about three years, and those who love the game like we do are starting to take notice. Benjamin Hill, who writes the excellent Biz Blog at MLB.com, took the time to review our maiden publishing effort today, and we’re happy to say it was postitive press from someone whose work we respect and enjoy in return....
Over the last week I had the pleasure of partaking in a roundtable discussion with a group of Tampa Bay Rays bloggers on the subject of the Rays minor league system. Led by the blog RaysProspects.com, the group was asked which Rays prospect was going to break out on a lower level and upper level team, which prospect was over-hyped, what the Rays prospect list will look like in 2012, and a miscellaneous prediction....
I know things have been quiet here, but for good reason. While Eric has been focusing on College Hoops and his new gig at CBS Sports.com, and Mike has been learning the stand-up comedy ropes at the Tampa Improv, Brian has been hard at work taking Bus Leagues Baseball to the next level. And by “the next level”, I mean publishing. That’s right. Your favorite esoteric minor league writers are now in book form....
I think it was Henry Rollins who said that the memories of pop culture when you were a teenager are the memories that you remember most kindly. And as a child of the Midwest who saw the days of big league baseball’s strike implosion, the Northern League holds a special place in my heart. This is why I was excited to read a tale written by Stefan Fatsis. He grew up to write A...
Bus Leagues Book Review: The Last Best League As summer starts going into fall and the College Baseball Summer Leagues engage in their playoffs, I find myself looking to a minor league book that may have slipped through the cracks of your reading eye. And as I am a natural segueist, we will look at the story of a post Summer Catch Cape Cod League season. In the Last Best League Jim Collins writes...
The whys and wherefores of my whereabouts are too boring to mention. Just suffice it to say you need to be happy. I’m back. And I’m about to go literary upside all your heads. Heart of the Game tells the stories of Mike Coolbaugh and Tino Sanchez and the confluence of events that led to the tragic night in Little Rock that ended Coolbaugh’s life. And to put on my reviewer hat, but this...
