I recently sat down with Christina Kahrl and Kevin Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus to talk about Baseball Prospectus 2009, following a public signing and discussion at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA. Click that nice green play button to roll the audio… To paraphrase Kevin’s lead-in to the event, “books like this don’t […]

Legend has it that way back in 1885, a Chicago White Sox player walked into a Windy City bar, his vest bursting at the buttons after an off-season full of lots of good living – albeit apparently not full of preparation for the upcoming season. This player proceeded to consume somewhere between six and eight […]

Children’s book are always fun for me to read – partially because they give my brain a needed rest, but more importantly because we need to keep the younger generations connected to the game to make sure they’re made aware of what a great game baseball is and will be fans for life. Hitting stores […]

It was with great eagerness that I dove into The Yankee Years, which seems to be the most talked-about baseball book of this still young 2009. As with anything – a bottle of wine, a cigar, or a book – the hype and talk surrounding it often skews one’s vision of it once it is […]

Looking back on a title from 1992, read about how Little League Baseball was started, in A PROMISE KEPT: The Story of the Founding of Little League Baseball by Carl E. Stotz.

I’d kind of thought I’d taken a look at all the 2009 season preview titles when the folks at ACTA Sports sent me The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009. Let me first say that I really enjoy the work that The Hardball TImes puts out. I subscribe to their RSS feed, I like their blog […]