Slightly Better than Replacement Level
James Creighton is a fascinating figure in baseball history. Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America’s First Baseball Hero is a fascinating book, though it’s not quite the biography that it purports to be. Thomas W. Gilbert has woven an eminently fascinating tale. I breezed through it in a few days and enjoyed […]
When it comes to my allegiances within Major League Baseball, it’s no secret that I’m a Chicago Cubs fan. That’s never stopped me from respecting the ability of the St. Louis Cardinals to be a contender year after year. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I don’t loathe the Cardinals, I do. But one […]
As Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series came to a close, I struggled with what I had just read. Mainly, I struggled with the idea that anyone could read David Pietrusza’s book and not find it terminally boring. When I finally turned to the last […]
The other day, I was rummaging around my closet for something, and I came across my batpack. In that moment, I realized I hadn’t been to the batting cages in a couple of months. Standing there holding my batpack with my bat sticking out and staring at me, I knew something important: I missed being […]
I sat and stewed over this review for a few days. It’s not that I didn’t know what to say about Wrigleyworld: A Season in Baseball’s Best Neighborhood, it’s that I didn’t know how negative I wanted to be. There have been books I have disliked; those reading along know I have read a fair […]