If I asked you to name five players for the Mariners, you’d probably be able to do it. But could you name those same five guys’ agents? Or what they do for the players? Maybe not. That’s where License to Deal, the new book from ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick’s comes in. Now, it’s not a roster […]

If you’re like me and planning some road trips this season, you’ll definitely want to pick up Roadside Baseball by Chris Epting. It’s a state-by-state look at baseball related sites that connect you with the game of years gone by. The listings range from the obvious – stadiums and the Hall of Fame – to […]

Now that we’re back in baseball season, it seemed fitting to get reacquainted with the game – which is what led me to Why is the Foul Pole Fair? (or, Answers to the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn’t ask) by Vince Staten. With a name like that – I really expected to be […]

While most baseball books are non-fictional, there are some good ones out there that use baseball as the framework for a fictional story. Jay Feldman’s latest book, Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream is one of them. It’s 1942, World War II is happening, and Japanese-American internment camps have been set up in the Western […]

Over the last few years, I’ve come to believe that every baseball fan needs to know the name Buck O’Neil. Then I realized that every baseball fan doesn’t just need to know the name Buck O’Neil, they need to know who Buck O’Neil is, and why he is such a treasure to baseball and our […]

It was early October 2001, and Ted Williams was entering the final months of his life. His three best friends – all former teammates from the Red Sox, all knew it – and two of them, Dominic DiMaggio and John Pesky embark on a 1300 mile trip to visit him one last time. So begins […]