Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team by Rob Fleder

On April 5, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Sports, by Editor

Superbly written, deeply insightful, and full of both passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a completely fresh look at baseball’s most enduring franchise by a Murderers’ Row of writers as stacked as that of the 1927 Yanks.

Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball’s Greatest Gift by Harvey Araton

On April 3, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Sports, by Editor

At turns tender, at turns laugh-out-loud funny, and teeming with unforgettable baseball yarns that span more than fifty years, Driving Mr. Yogi is a universal story about the importance of wisdom being passed from one generation to the next, as well as a reminder that time is what we make of it and compassion never gets old.

The Emerald Diamond: How the Irish Transformed America’s Greatest Pastime by Charley Rosen

On April 1, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Sports, by Editor

The history of the Irish in baseball is much richer than anyone realizes. From early discrimination to later domination, from Mike Kelly, a society star in the 1880s, to the managerial fame of Connie Mack (nÉ McGillicuddy), early Irish players and managers helped shape the game of baseball in every way. From the first curveball to the first players’ unions, Irishmen took America’s national pastime and made it their own, turning it into the glorious game we know today, as more recent players have kept alive the Irish tradition of setting records.

Kindle Edition – The Last Boy by Jane Leavy

On October 20, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original—number 7, Mickey Mantle. Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle’s life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with an achingly damaged soul.

The Murderous Red Sox – Yankees Rivalry

On April 19, 2010, in Baseball is NOT a Sport!, Life in New England, by Editor

The rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees is a much needed spice for an otherwise sober game that, more than once, challenged my ability to stay awake during late night hours.

Really! Baseball is NOT a Sport!

On April 16, 2010, in Baseball is NOT a Sport!, by Editor

Yes, I do stand to my statement that Baseball is not a sport. To put it in a nut-shell, Baseball is a game interrupted by momentary eruptions of athletic interferences, or, as Yogi Berra put it so much more exquisitely, “Baseball is 90% mental; the other half is physical.”