sabremike Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 1 minute ago, elizium said: I'm guessing the amount of truth in that book will take up about 10 pages. Nails is essentially the baseball version of Kenny Bolin and Hulk Hogan in that they are amazing bullshitters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Not mentioned yet but reccomended: Jerry Izenberg's "No Medals For Trying" Thomas Hauser's oral bio on Ali John Feinstein's "A Civil War" (about the Army-Navy rivalry) There isn't a BAD choice by Halberstam but my favorite might be October 1964. John Heylar's Lords of the Realm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 The books I read during my sports run earlier this year. I remember someone here pimping Ty Cobb: a terrible beauty by Charles Alexander, and it is outstanding On a related note, fuck Al Stump with a chainsaw and I hope he's rotting in hell. Also great is Mickey Mantle: the last boy by Jane Leavy. Clemente: by David Maraniss is also outstanding. Those are all five star bios. Also five stars for the Glory of their times by Lawrence Ritter, is a oral history of the early days of baseball and I can't recommend it enough. I also read Roger Maris: Baseball's reluctant hero, I would give it 3 stars, as its a good read, but bogs down in the day to day minutia of the HR chase and his career too much. Luckiest Man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig by Johnathan Eig is better, 4 star, but there's just something about the writing(while very good) that just misses the mark. George Steinbrenner: Last Lion of Baseball is also very good, a 4 star book, but Bill Madden is an okay, easy to read sportswriter, but his prose lacks the magic of the truly great writers. Finally Matty: an American hero by Ray Robinson is as bad at the title suggests. A by the books bio, its dated in style, and lacks any conversational narrative. Its one star and in my purge pile, and it takes a lot for a book to end up there. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zheroen Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Somewhat surprised that Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby hasn't been mentioned as of yet. All of the idiosyncratic and neurotic passion for details and outright mania exhibited in High Fidelity, transposed to football culture (specifically, Arsenal). On that note, let's just pretend that the Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore film abortionadaptation to being about the Red Sox in place of Arsenal does not exist, shall we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Not a book, but each issue of the Blizzard might as well be a book. The Euros issue is out next week i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 On 28/05/2016 at 4:58 PM, odessasteps said: Not a book, but each issue of the Blizzard might as well be a book. The Euros issue is out next week i think. Thanks for the tip on these - they are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Esp since they are pay what you like. Although since i have a subscription, its like £3 or 4 an issue. But worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 If we're going fiction, I'm pimping Semi-Tough and the Rabbit series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I'm about 1/3 of the way into Tim Hornbaker's new Shoeless Joe Jackson book and it's been very good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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