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A Trip to the Library

Cover of the book Baseball Gods in Scandal by Ian S. Kahanowitz.
A Trip to the Library

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.
A Trip to the Library

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)
Cover to Power Ball by Rob Neyer.
A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Power Ball

Power Ball was a Christmas pick up for me, one of a handful of books that I bought with bonus Amazon money from work. I picked it up on the strength of lots of positive reviews, and yet it sat on my bookshelf for many months and I found myself constantly passing it over to […]

Posted on July 12, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover to Smart Baseball by Keith Law.
A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Smart Baseball

I’m a relatively new convert to the sabermetrics side of baseball. I know it may seem at times, based on my writing at least, that I am someone who is deeply entrenched in the sabermetric world. I’d like to think I’m someone who has slowly been able to immerse himself into sabermetrics and gain a […]

Posted on June 25, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: The Soul of Baseball

Writing a book about Buck O’Neil couldn’t have been an easy task. The author of The Soul of Baseball, Joe Posnanski, spent an entire year with Buck and came away with countless stories to relate to his readers. All it takes is watching one interview with Buck to know that any time spent with him […]

Posted on June 11, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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