Category Archives: books
Media Play
I haven’t written much about baseball lately. Truth be told, I haven’t watched much since the Red Sox collapsed. Maybe I will write a post-mortem on their season, but what can I add that hasn’t already been said? I have … Continue reading
WSJ: The Genius Of The Tinkerer
This one is for me. I’d rather link it on my blog than bookmark it. I dug the article. Apparently, Johnson has a new book that sounds very reminiscent of James Burke. I read Everything That Is Bad Is Good … Continue reading
Popular Crime
I’m really fatigued by steroid arguments. How long has this been a hot button issue in baseball? Feels like years. To me, the most important part of this Bill James essay is the mention of his soon to be published … Continue reading
Pour Low The Foundation, Masons
Interesting stuff from Keith Olbermann’s blog: Autographs, documents, confirmation of personal interaction with the late and famously reclusive author of The Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger) are rare, to say the least. But this one describes, to his World … Continue reading
What Mark Read: The Maltese Falcon
Good review by my friend Mark of The Maltese Falcon. He didn’t mention the Flitcraft story, which was my favorite part of the book. Otherwise, I liked this.
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Nails
Last nite, Rob Neyer posted about Lenny Dykstra at his Sweet Spot blog. To me, the most interesting part was the last graf: And speaking of books, most baseball players really aren’t interesting enough to write about. Not in a … Continue reading
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Mark S reviews some political noir. American Tabloid by James Ellroy was a giant curveball by the hard-boiled detective writer. Those of us who loved his L.A. Quartet didn’t know what to expect when Ellroy finished with the 50s and … Continue reading
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Mini Book Review: The Catch
Crossposted from Residual Prolixity: The Catch was disappointing. I was hoping that it would go into more about how San Francisco overtook the Cowboys as an NFC power. The book does touch on that, but it could have gone into … Continue reading
Spearated at Birth
Jack Nicklaus and Joseph Hart Warren Beatty and Richard Corriere
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Speaking of Mark S.
Mark touches on Bloom County. To me, the 80s were the golden age of comic strips with Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side. I think I still have a collection or two of this strip lying around.
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