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A Trip to the Library

Cover for D.B. Firstman's Hall of Name
A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Hall of Name

It took me a long time to make my way through D.B. Firstman’s Hall of Name. Some of that was on me, I procured a copy just as I was in the middle of reading a mammoth critical care textbook in preparation for a soon to be COVID canceled CCEMT-P class. By the time I […]

Posted on November 19, 2020November 15, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Stolen Bases

Right from the start, Jennifer Ring’s novel achieves its purpose: making the reader angry. Stolen Bases isn’t just the facts about the history of women in baseball or girls in youth baseball. Rather, this is a pointed crack at the establishment. Ring doesn’t come across as angry herself, but by beginning her novel with a […]

Posted on February 12, 2020February 7, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover photo for The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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A Trip to the Library: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Is it possible to find a book both highly valuable and cringe-inducing? I’d never come across a book worthy of that distinction until I read The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. It is in equal measure one of the most important baseball books ever written and a deep look into the disturbing views of […]

Posted on January 3, 2020January 2, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover of the book Baseball Gods in Scandal by Ian S. Kahanowitz.
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A Trip to the Library: Baseball Gods in Scandal

Something I never expected when I started my own website was for people to approach me to review their book. Call me naive, but I still am a little floored whenever anyone clicks on an article let alone offers feedback or contacts me about anything related to the site. Needless to say, I was pretty […]

Posted on September 3, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover of The Cooperstown Casebook by Jay Jaffe.
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A Trip to the Library: The Cooperstown Casebook

My issues with the National Baseball Hall of Fame have been well documented on this site. Those views haven’t changed, but I am a fan of Jay Jaffe’s writing for FanGraphs, and that made his book The Cooperstown Casebook an easy grab while perusing a local Half Price Books a few months back. I knew […]

Posted on August 15, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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