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...
So, I went on amazon.com the other day because I needed to order a new charging cable for my cellphone. They cost six bucks, but I’m an online shopping junkie. When you work from home, it’s more fun to get a package every once in a while rather than go shopping with retirees at 10 AM. Of course, while I was on the site, my finger slipped and I accidentally ordered a sports book,...
Now after reading a book like The Bullpen Gospels, one could see how reading a chronicling of a season of a non-prospect might not be completely fair. But the fact of the matter? Steve Fireovid along with Mark Winegardner published their book about twenty years before. That’s right. I’m kicking it old school. The 26th Man is the story of Fireovid’s 1990 season with the Indianapolis Indians. It was back in the days of...
If you’re any sort of a baseball book fan? You’ve had to hear about the story of Dirk Hayhurst. The word of mouth in terms of The Bullpen Gospels was excellent. Names such as Bob Costas and Keith Olbermann were among the baseball names singing its praise. And let me just say? It’s more than worthy of the hype. The classic stories in sports have attempted to be something more than merely about the...
Those among us who enjoy writing as well as Minor League Baseball have found themselves in heady times, my friends. The Bullpen Chronicles Gospels, the Magnum Opus from Dirk Hayhurst has been highly regarded amongs those of us who still actually read books on paper. But until Amazon.com actually brings Hayhurst’s opus to me? We’ll start our series with a controversial tale. Odd Man Out chronicles the 2002 Provo Angels from the eyes of...
Thursday was one of those “good news, bad news” days. The good news: I received a copy of Joe Posnanski’s “The Machine” in the mail from Harper Collins (I’m still not entirely sure why this happened, but at least it made me feel important). The bad news: I already bought the book a couple days after it came out. (Actually, I bought two books on that trip to Barnes & Noble: “The Machine” for...
Full disclosure first: this book was sent to me by one of my best friends from college, Randy Thorne. He was one of the group of four that accompanied me to many a Royals game in the muggy heat of Kansas City, the guy who would never consent to leave before the last out was recorded, even when we were getting stomped, and a good friend to this day. His uncle wrote this book....
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
