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Dr. Harvey Frommer on
Sports
SPORTS BOOK REVIEW:
The T206 Collection and other Sporting
Reads
If you are into
baseball
cards and into beautiful baseball books,the
T206
Collection by Tom Zappala, et al (Peter E. Randall Publisher, $38.00,
203 pages, oversized) is one tome terrific you should check out. The legendary
T206 set of cards is all yours for the grazing, studying, in this remarkable
book that tells the stories, sad and soaring, of the players in Tobacco
Trusts white border set.
SPECIAL
INTEREST:
Hub
Fans Bid Kid Adieu($15.00)
by the 28-year-old John Updike in a special 50th anniversary
deluxe collectors edition is the account of Ted Williams and his final
at bat at Fenway Park. The little book contains an autobiographical preface
and a substantial afterword prepared by Updike just months before his
death.
Nice sports books from Clerisy Press are available
for your reading pleasure all from the prolific John Snyder.
365 Odd Ball Days in Chicago
Cubs History and 365
Odd Ball Days in Los Angeles Dodgers History are both in paper,
both 377 pages and both priced at $14.95. If you are into baseball
trivia/nostalgia - -these tomes are for you. Angels Journal and
Twins Journal (($29.95, 448 pages) cover year by year and day
by day with the franchises since 1961.
Another look at Mr. October? Yes, thats what Dayn Perry (Morrow,
$25.99, 326 pages) serves up in
Reggie
Jackson. Perry points out that both Reggie and his agent were
uncooperative in the project but there was plenty of help from print, internet
and interview sources. The book is billed as the first full tome on the old
showhorse in a quarter century.
Flip Bondys
Chasing
the Game (Da Capo, $25.00, 312 pages) is highly recommended for
soccer zealots as in depth and with accuracy it documents the American quest
for the World Cup. Most interesting are the ups and downs of the USA in World
Cup clashes.
From Pantheon we have
The
Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant ( $29.95, 600
pages). The authors master work previously was Shut Out: A Story
of Race and Baseball in Boston. This book with all its depth, insights,
passion, and heart is now Bryants master work providing as it does
a full portrait of a baseball legend who never seemed to come out from behind
the mask and the headlines.
BACKLIST
GEMS: Early Innings and Middle
Innings edited by Dean A. Sullivan (Bison Books, paper) are documentary
histories of baseball, one from 1825-1908 and the other from 1900-1948, told
from the viewpoint of primary
writings, many from unexpected sources, all serving up insights and sidebars
to many aspects of the richness of our national
pastime.
Fascinating
Tennis
and Philosophy edited by David Baggett (University Press of Kentucky,
$35.00, 294 pages) is as its sub-title proclaims about what the racket
is all about told from the perspective of scholars, philosophers, writers.
An interesting read.
Harvey Frommer is in his 34th consecutive year of writing sports books. A noted oral historian and sports journalist, the author of 40 sports books including the classics: "New York City Baseball,1947-1957" and "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his acclaimed REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM, an oral/narrative history (Abrams, Stewart, Tabori and Chang) was published in 2008 as well as a reprint version of his classic "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball." Frommer's newest work CELEBRATING FENWAY PARK: AN ORAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE HOME OF RED SOX NATION is next.
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