ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian has penned his reflection of baseball after 25 years behind the typewriter and in front of the camera in his new book Is This a Great Game, or What?
I picked it up thinking it was an autobiography – which I am inherently skeptical about. But Kurkjian really doesn’t talk about himself – [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 20, 2007
Is This a Great Game, or What? by Tim Kurkjian
July 6, 2007
Just Play Ball by Joe Garagiola
In Just Play Ball, former big league catcher and legendary broadcaster Joe Garagiola has put together 243 pages that will take you on a trip inside the head of a lifelong baseball man.
With a combination of stories, opinions, observations and teachings, Garagiola pulls up a chair next to you and shares how he sees the [...]
July 6, 2007
The Bronx is Burning – by Jonathan Mahler
1977 was one of the most turbulent years in New York City history – a citywide blackout during a scorching hot summer, the Son of Sam murders, a heated mayoral race, and not to mention, a revolution that was happening with the New York Yankees.
Jonathan Mahler paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of this turbulent time in [...]
