Slightly Better than Replacement Level
There are parts to John Feinstein’s work that are dripping with humanity. Whether it’s the snippets he shows us of Scott Elarton’s journey or the travails of John Lindsey, they come across as decidedly human beings swept up in something much greater than themselves. Feinstein’s ability to showcase the humanity of his subjects is, undoubtedly, […]
There’s a nuanced story about arm injuries in baseball. One that is full of depth and hard questions. The sort of story that a journalist can make a career out of as they plow forward and seek to uncover the truth and provide answers. Perhaps one day such a story will find its way into […]
How much of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever is written by Satchel Paige, and how much is written by David Lipman? How much is written by Lipman pretending to be Paige? How much of the content within the pages of Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever actually took place? If I were a gambling man, I’d wager that […]
Baseball as fiction is always, in my opinion, hard for an author to pull off. The main reason for this is that the author doesn’t let baseball tell the story. Instead, they feel the need to insert some sort of extraneous element that isn’t really necessary to the story. Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball […]
It’s not often that one gets to read something that is a verifiable piece of history. Such is the case with Sol White’s Official Base Ball Guide. I had this one on my list of baseball books I wanted to get to for some time. Luckily, Summer Game Books republished the book in recent years, […]