Slightly Better than Replacement Level
On the trip home after passing my Critical Care Emergency Medical Transport Program my wife and I stopped at a humongous book store in Columbus, Ohio called The Book Loft. I, of course, beelined through all the fire hazard death trap tunnels of books to the baseball section. My wife’s gift for passing the aforementioned […]
Sometimes when I’m reading a baseball book I have to stop and ask myself, “Is this book actually good or am I only finding it interesting because it’s covering a subject I’m not familiar with?” When this happens I hem and haw while actually reading the book and then have to spend at least a […]
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of biographies. Far too often, I find them lacking in actual content and bereft of the compelling moments that made up the subjects’ lives. Not that biographies don’t cover those moments, mind you. Rather, it’s that I’ve found it to be the case, especially […]
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that I have a deep-rooted passion for Cuban baseball. Since my deep dive into the world of unaffiliated baseball began in earnest around 2016 Cuban baseball has been one of my favorite areas to explore. Serie Nacional de Béisbol, Cuba’s top league, is probably my favorite baseball […]
It has been some time since I have stumbled across a baseball book that made me question its existence. There have been some books that were bad, some that were misguided or without focus. There have been books that lacked purpose or were written poorly. Not until Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti did […]