What does it mean to be overrated? How about underrated? And who in baseball falls into that category? ESPN’s Jayson Stark tackles that question with his new book The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History.   Stark uses statistics to compare just who are the most overrated and underrated players […]

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of fiction – but when I heard about Frank Deford’s new book The Entitled, I decided to put my bias to the side – and I’m very glad I was. The Entitled is the tale of Howie Traveler, a manager who struggled up […]

It’s easy to assume that the perfectly manicured ballfields we see today have existed throughout the history of the game. But as recently as the mid-1900s, the quality of fields varied greatly from team to team – sometimes to the point where the batters box was actually above the pitcher’s mound, or the third baseman […]

After it was dropped by its original publisher, many thought this fictional portrait of Mickey Mantle wouldn’t make it to store shelves. But thankfully it has! Golenbock takes on the task of writing a biography of The Mick with creative license – placing Mantle in heaven and in need of a way to unburden himself […]

Autobiographies written by former players tend to not make my must read list very often. A lot of the time they are just pages of self-praise…how great I did this, how great I did that, how hard it was for me, and so on. Needless to say, I had some reservations when I started Mel […]

Hall of Famer Dave Winfield believes that baseball is in trouble, which can be hard to believe when you consider that revenue is at an all-time high, attendance at games is strong and the reach of baseball around the world grows every day. But to Winfield, there are some significant problems that unless corrected, will […]