Bruce Weber’s book about “the land of umpires” gives fans a greater insight into the profession and makes you question your preconceptions of what they do
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The Hardball Times Baseball Annual is one of the titles on my ‘baseball books to buy’ list every year
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Swinging Away is a book to accompany the exhibit of the same name that was staged at the MCC Museum at the ‘Home of cricket’, Lords, during 2010
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The Giants franchise features in a pre-2010 season instalment in the Past and Present series at MVP Books
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“The secret history of the fastball and the improbable search for the fastest pitcher of all time”
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Few players in the history of baseball have left a legacy quite as successful and colourful as Lawrence ‘Yogi’ Berra and Allen Barra’s biography is the book that Berra’s outstanding career deserves
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Broadcaster and former Big League pitcher Ron Darling offers his ‘refections on baseball and the art of pitching’ in The Complete Game
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Our 2010/11 offseason book review series begins with a baseball classic: Eliot Asinof’s seminal book about the Black Sox Scandal
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Strike Zone by Jim Bouton and Eliot Asinof (Viking, 1994), 256 pages Most of the book reviews on BaseballGB are on non-fiction publications, but we do run the rule over…
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Book Review: Practice Perfect Baseball edited by Bob Bennett
by Matt Smithby Matt SmithThe latest baseball coaching manual from Human Kinetics taps into the experience and expertise of a distinguished group of college coaches, providing new ideas on how coaches can improve their practice sessions