The 33-Year-Old Rookie — by Chris Coste

This was a real love-hate book for me, so I’m taking a slightly different approach to the review this time:
What I like about The 33-Year-Old Rookie
-Through telling his story, Coste provides a great reminder that life isn’t easy – and for some it’s harder than others despite having talent, ability and drive. We all need [...]

The Crowd Sounds Happy – A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball — by Nicholas Dawidoff

For some people, baseball becomes an important thread that holds things together in their lives. It fills a void, helps make sense of the world, and provides something to be close to.
For acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff, baseball became his refuge during adolescence, filling the gaps between divorced parents, a mentally ill father, and the [...]

You Can Observe A Lot by Watching – by Yogi Berra

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a big fan of Yogi Berra – both the ballplayer and the person, which is why I was excited to read his new book, You Can Observe A Lot by Watching.
In this book, Berra draws on his 19 seasons in the Majors to focus on what it [...]

Baseball’s Greatest Hit – by Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles

It’s the third most sung tune in America – performed every single day of the year in one place or another. But you know it best as the song that’s sung after the 39th out is recorded – the song that proclaims where we want to go, even though we sing it when we’re already [...]