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Surferwang

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summer baseball reading
« on: July 18, 2006, 03:33:53 pm »
I'm looking for a good baseball book to read over the last month of the summer.  I've read Moneyball, Boys of Summer, and a few others that I can't remember off of the top of my head.  I feel like you guys would have some good reccomendations.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2006, 03:44:35 pm »
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I'm looking for a good baseball book to read over the last month of the summer.  I've read Moneyball, Boys of Summer, and a few others that I can't remember off of the top of my head.  I feel like you guys would have some good reccomendations.



Dierker's new book, My Team, is a pretty good read so far.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2006, 03:59:13 pm »
One book I did not like and do not recommend is "Three Days in August" by Buzz Bissinger.  I overlooked the fact that it was about the Cards because I enjoyed Friday Night Lights, but it was a full on LaGenius and Duncan masturbatory piece.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2006, 04:00:27 pm »
 Inside Pitch

I liked it, although some of the amazon reviewers didn't.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2006, 04:03:48 pm »
i liked Three Nights immensely. i recommend it to anyone who wants to see what baseball is like in the dugout.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2006, 04:34:26 pm »
I really like  David Halberstam's Summer of 49.

One of my favorites.

Also, for a good quick read, Michael Shaara's For Love of The Game is an excellent noveletta, despite them making it into a Kevin Costner chick flick.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2006, 04:45:59 pm »
I would second My Team by Dierker and I guess third? Three Nights.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2006, 04:51:47 pm »
Double Play
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2006, 05:16:12 pm »
"How to Rule Your Roost"
By: Brad Herridge

I know this one is not completely baseball related but I feel the need to mention it because it is considered by many to be a modern masterpiece...chapter 5 deals specifically with how to keep your wife/girlfriend from nagging while watching baseball games.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2006, 05:20:14 pm »
The Catcher in the Rye...I heard Mel Gibson recommends it, but that could just be a conspiracy theory.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2006, 05:35:32 pm »
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The Catcher in the Rye...I heard Mel Gibson recommends it, but that could just be a conspiracy theory.



I read The Catcher in the Wry by Bob Uecker.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2006, 05:44:21 pm »
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The Catcher in the Rye...I heard Mel Gibson recommends it, but that could just be a conspiracy theory.


A Painted House has some baseball stuff in it, but it's about listening to the 3rds on the radio.  Other than that, fuck all happens.  Grisham owes me a few hours back.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2006, 08:53:58 pm »
Magic Time or Shoeless Joe (the book Field of Dreams was based on) by W.P. Kinsella.  Both are good, although I liked the Magic Time better.
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Re: summer baseball reading
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2006, 10:26:32 pm »
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Magic Time or Shoeless Joe (the book Field of Dreams was based on) by W.P. Kinsella.  Both are good, although I liked the Magic Time better.



As is the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, also by Kinsella.
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