A quick note to those who stop by the site regularly – stay tuned for some new reviews in the coming days. After the regular season, I try and take a few weeks off to catch up with some other reading, notably something other than baseball books. If you’re interested, I just finished Dick Meyer’s […]

The choices we don’t make in life sometimes plague us more than those that we do; how would my life be different (read: better) if I had taken that job, made that phone call, married that other person? Where would I be? What would I be doing? Well take that way of thinking, and apply […]

I recently had the chance to speak with author Matt Dahlgren about his book, Rumor In Town, which attempts to clear the name of his grandfather, former big leaguer Babe Dahlgren of a vicious rumor that he was a marijuana user during his career. Listen to the interview here; thanks to KOMO Radio for hosting […]

Baseball is full of stories – many we know, but many more which go untold. One of those untold stories is that of Babe Dahlgren – the man who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base for the Yankees when he took himself out of the lineup – and who also had a career tarnished and […]

Even though there are still a few weeks to go in the season, the end is coming, and so I’ve gravitated to a few titles that deal with putting a season under wraps. The first is Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs, by Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan, a title from the good folks at […]

Peter Morris is back after writing the two volumes of A Game of Inches, which were some of my favorite books in 2007, and he takes us back to the early days of baseball – before it was even called by that name, and chronicles how the game got its footing throughout the country and […]