Tag: book review
group name: sportsbooksrcool
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March 21, 2008 08:43 PM EST --
Fans of Yogi Berra should thank Carlo DeVito for making his biography necessary.
Berra's fractured language sometimes overshadowed his Hall of Fame baseball career. In "Yogi: The . . . more
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March 17, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
Here is a nice travelogue for a baseball fan. And in fact, some baseball fanatics fans might even try to visit every place listed in Josh Pahigan's book, "101 Baseball Places To See Before You . . . more
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April 16, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
It would not have been a far-fetched scenario.
Bill Veeck, returning from World War II, buys the Philadelphia Athletics from Connie Mack. Baseball's biggest maverick then stocks . . . more
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May 03, 2008 07:47 PM EDT --
Some golfers hate to review their round after hacking their way around the course. It's just too painful to recall, and those duffers are content to sit at the clubhouse bar and muse about . . . more
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April 02, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
Jose Canseco begins his sequel to "Juiced" with a rant about Roger Clemens and implies a coverup. At times he blends vindication with a dash of vindictiveness, but by the time he is . . . more
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May 17, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
In today's multimedia, Internet-driven, YouTube culture, John Montague's private life would have been made public within days of his splashy debut in Hollywood -- and his story may have ended . . . more
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May 03, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
The Red Sox may have glamour stars like Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz and Dice-K, but I like guys like Mike Lowell. Players like Lowell are truly the heart and soul of the squad.
Lowell's . . . more
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April 09, 2008 10:05 PM EDT --
These days, Bucky Dent's three-run homer that propelled the New York Yankees past the Boston Red Sox in a 1978 playoff game seems stilted and grainy on film. But certainly at the time, . . . more
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June 11, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
I have to admit that I rooted for the New York Yankees during the late 1960s and early 1970s, which took a little bit of courage. After all, the haughty dynasty that rang up 29 pennants and 21 World Series . . . more
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August 09, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
"Love trumps journalism every time," suggests golf writer Jack Brannon. "Anybody with sense knows that."
It certainly makes sense to a guy like Brannon, the smart-alecky, perceptive, . . . more
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June 04, 2008 08:26 PM EDT --
If you want to be a fly on the wall in an athletic setting, just read the work of John Feinstein. He has been providing that view for more than two decades.
Feinstein has taken us to the locker . . . more
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June 25, 2008 10:16 PM EDT --
Here is a book that has something for everyone: athletic competition and controversy, outstanding performances, a whiff of scandal and plenty of Cold War intrigue.
No, it's not a spy novel . . . more
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August 10, 2008 06:40 PM EDT --
What I always have admired about David Halberstam was his ability to write about diverse subjects and still hold my interest. He wrote 21 books and many more essays and articles during his career, covering . . . more
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August 19, 2008 08:22 PM EDT --
Wendell Scott was about to realize his dream.
After competing on the Southern stock car circuit for more than a decade, Scott was in the lead on the final lap in a 1963 race in Jacksonville, . . . more
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September 01, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
What sports books have y'all been reading? I have recently finished "Urban's Way" by Buddy Martin, about UF football coach Urban Meyer, and "Gorgeous George," by John Capouya, . . . more
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September 03, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
George Wagner was a journeyman pro wrestler in the early 1940s, but he hit upon a formula that went against all convention and made him a huge star.
He transformed himself from a "babyface" . . . more
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