Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs – by Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan

Even though there are still a few weeks to go in the season, the end is coming, and so I’ve gravitated to a few titles that deal with putting a season under wraps.
The first is Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs, by Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan, a title from the good folks at ACTA [...]

But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 — by Peter Morris

Peter Morris is back after writing the two volumes of A Game of Inches, which were some of my favorite books in 2007, and he takes us back to the early days of baseball – before it was even called by that name, and chronicles how the game got its footing throughout the country and [...]

Biggio: The Final Game — by Michael Hart

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