14 March 2011

ScoreCasting, by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. John Wertheim

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ScoreCasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. John Wertheim This is o...
02 March 2011

Willie Mays - The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch

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"Mays would have made a splash no matter when he entered the major leagues, but 1951 served him unusually well. His skills shined ...
13 December 2010

Book Review: Strike IX - by Paul Lonardo

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Everybody loves an underdog. Paul Lonardo has brought you the compelling story of 25 of them in his new book, Strike IX: The Story of a Big...
01 March 2010

Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye

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"History binds Josh [Gibson] and Satchel at the hip as the two towering figures of the Negro Leagues, but nature left them as mismatche...
09 May 2009

Book Review: The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci

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As the field manager of the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007, Joe Torre epitomized class and dignity on the baseball field, so it's fi...
28 September 2008

Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built, 1923-2008, by Harvey Frommer

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Remembering Yankee Stadium : An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built, 1923-2008 , by Harvey Frommer Harvey Frommer has o...
15 September 2008

Things to Know and Things to Do

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Observations from an insider by LB Valentino Boston Red Sox tickets are probably the most popular baseball tickets in demand this season. T...
01 July 2008

Review: Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends

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Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else by Rob Neyer “Because only a good story well told is wort...
15 June 2008

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Major League Baseball is something of an anomaly in American sports. It is by far the most pastoral of games. This has obvious roots in the...
08 June 2008

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox and the Playoff of ’78 by Richard Bradley

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“It felt not just like a singular moment, but a fragile one, a rare convergence of tradition and rivalry and timelessness that would not be ...
28 April 2008

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FOX broadcast the Saturday afternoon Yankees-Indians game, so I got to watch some Yankees baseball on my television instead of MLB.tv, which...
22 April 2008

Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid, by John Rosengren

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The word "skeptical" barely begins to describe my demeanor as I was asked to review John Rosengren 's new book, Hammerin' ...
08 April 2008

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Somewhere along the way I became obsessed with statistics and baseball. Ever since I was a little kid I would take the box scores for the pr...
04 February 2008

Harvard Boys, by John Wolff and Rick Wolff

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I wanted to like this book. I was offered a chance to review Harvard Boys back in November, and I finished reading it weeks ago, but I'...
19 September 2007

3 Yankees vs Blue Jays Main Box 327 Tickets Sat 9/22/07

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I've got three tickets for sale for Saturday's Yankees/Blue Jays game at Yankee Stadium. It's "The Bronx is Burning" ...
02 July 2007

Book Review: The Stark Truth, by Jayson Stark

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The Stark Truth : The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History by Jayson Stark C. 2007, Triumph Books, Chicago, IL 206 p.,...