Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I didn’t plan on writing about baseball this week. My schedule has been fairly intense, and it won’t let up for at least another month. Unfortunately, when life gets busy, it’s often my baseball writing that takes a backseat. However, when a day like October 17th, 2025, comes along, the writing bug stirs to life […]
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, […]
On the whole, I really enjoyed Jules Tygiel’s effort. The concept is one that is right up my alley, and for the most part, it had me hooked from the get-go. There are times when it faltered and when Tygiel succumbed to classical tropes instead of actual investigations of history. Those moments were decidedly in […]