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A
Triple Play of Top Baseball Reads
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By Harvey Frommer
NBA Play-offs looming and
big-time books about basketball all
over the place. What follows is your faithful reviewers picks – all
slam dunks.
Golden by Marcus Thompson II
(Touchstone,
$26.00, 259 pages) is sub-titled “the miraculous rise of Seth Curry”
and it is
all about that and much more. Thompson,
who it claimed has been witness to every dribble of Curry’s pro career” and had limitless access to his subject and
all those around him that formed “the family and friends and support
circle”
made good use of it. This is a terrific
book insightful, at times controversial, always worth reading. MUST READ
“Return of the King” by Brian Windhorst and
Dave McMenamin
(Grand Central Publishing, $28.00, 264v pages) is all about as its
sub-title
proclaims: LeBron James, The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest
Comeback in
NBA History. Both authors like Thompson II had limitless access it
seems to the
words and the deeds of the player many consider the brightest star in
the NBA
galaxy. We are there frontstage and backstage, thru the ups and downs,
inside
the locker room and on the court. TERRIFIC
READ
“FURIOUS GEORGE” by George Karl with Curt
Sampson
(HarperCollins, $27.99, 228 pages) is a heck of a book that covers four
decades
of George Karl’s experiences in the National Basketball Association.
The
ex-coach spares no one as he recounts all the details of what his
basketball
life was like. Controversial, eye opening, on point, honest – if only
all
sports memoirs were like this. OUTSTANDING
BOOKENDS: College
Football’s Greatest edited by Bill Syken
(Sports
Illustrated, $32.95, 256 pages) is a mother lode of images, stats.
Accounts of
the programs, the big men on campus, the running backs, the coaches,
the rivalries.
About
the Author: One of the most prolific and respected
sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of
the autobiographies of legends Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red
Holzman, Dr. Harvey Frommer is an expert on the New York Yankees. He
wrote for Yankees Magazine for 18 years, and has
arguably written more books, articles and reviews on the New York
Yankees than anyone. In 2010, he was
selected by the City of New York as an historical consultant for the
re-imagined old Yankee Stadium site, Heritage Field. A professor in the
MALS program at Dartmouth College, Frommer was dubbed “Dartmouth’s Mr.
Baseball” by their alumni magazine. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire
with his wife Myrna Katz Frommer.
His The Ultimate Yankee Book will be published fall 2017.
Pre-order from
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Yankee-Book-Beginning-Today-Essential/dp/1624144330
“As
a lifelong Yankees fan, I was devouring every last delicious new detail
about my beloved Bronx Bombers in this fabulous new book.” —Ed Henry,
author of 42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story
