Baseball Books
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On July 19th, future Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn played in his first Major League game. In his debut, he went 2 for 4, of course. How good was Tony Gwynn? He was a Hitter’s Hitter, a Pro’s Pro. He was the kind of hitting machine we do not see much in today’s game. The closest player Read more
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Segmenting time, or periodization, is something we have to do if we want to organize the past and give it meaning. But it’s dangerous. By choosing some dominating event and saying that its period starts here and ends there, we run the risk of neglecting other events that don’t fit well into the scheme we’ve Read more
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Some of the best baseball books are autobiographical. This is because baseball is the most measurable of games. We can look at a player’s statistics and the box scores of games and know the bones of the sport. The flesh of the sport is in autobiography. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn is two Read more
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Anyone who loves baseball and knows how to write wants to write a baseball book. Baseball is the most literary of the sports. Its long season, the leisurely nature of the games leads inevitably to stories– of past games and past players. Lawrence S. Ritter was an economics professor at NYU and an editor and Read more
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Baseball is at its root a game of conversation. The long season, the timeless nature of the games themselves, leads inevitably to conversation. In the dugout, players and coaches tell stories about games and plays they have seen and players they have known. They talk about all the important and unimportant things in their lives Read more
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NFL Football is a sport that is much better on television than in person. The concentrated bursts of action between long periods of inactivity are enhanced by instant replay, color commentary telling us all more about what we just watched, and beer commercials featuring scantily clad women. Anyone who has ever watched an NFL football Read more
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