White Sox game to support Reach out and Read of Illinois

This was passed on to me – if you are in the Chicago area, I hope you will be a part of it and support this great cause:
WHITE SOX GAME TO SUPPORT REACH OUT AND READ OF ILLINOIS
Watch the Chicago White Sox play the Cleveland Indians on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 7pm and raise [...]

The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History – by Jayson Stark

What does it mean to be overrated? How about underrated? And who in baseball falls into that category? ESPN’s Jayson Stark tackles that question with his new book The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History.
 
Stark uses statistics to compare just who are the most overrated and underrated players at each [...]

The Entitled by Frank Deford

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of fiction – but when I heard about Frank Deford’s new book The Entitled, I decided to put my bias to the side – and I’m very glad I was.
The Entitled is the tale of Howie Traveler, a manager who struggled up the [...]

Level Playing Fields – by Peter Morris

It’s easy to assume that the perfectly manicured ballfields we see today have existed throughout the history of the game. But as recently as the mid-1900s, the quality of fields varied greatly from team to team – sometimes to the point where the batters box was actually above the pitcher’s mound, or the third baseman [...]

7: The Mickey Mantle Novel – by Peter Golenbock

After it was dropped by its original publisher, many thought this fictional portrait of Mickey Mantle wouldn’t make it to store shelves. But thankfully it has!
Golenbock takes on the task of writing a biography of The Mick with creative license – placing Mantle in heaven and in need of a way to unburden himself from [...]