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Harvey Frommer’s Sports
Book Reviews:
August Sporting Reads –
Enjoy!
Dog days are upon us in August, most of the time. In publishing however
there is always a curious mix of recently published baseball books and just
published football tomes. This new edition of my ongoing sports books reviews,
almost four decades and counting, is a case very much in
point.
The biggest and also the most expensive of the lot is
“The
Pro Football Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book,” by
Joe Horrigan and John Thorn (Grand Central Publishing, $34.99, 320 pages).
If you are any kind of football fan, this marvelous looking effort is just
for you. Horrigan, veep of the
HOF’s for Communications/Exhibits and Thorn, a legend in anyone’s
book in the field of sports publishing, make a terrific team. They have produced
a gem. Chronologically organized,
this anniversary book boasts hundreds of images, all kinds of memorabilia,
superb writing. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
From Abrams comes
“Yankee
Greats” and
“Baseball
Fantography.”The former by
Bob Woods ($19.95, 224 pages) is a compendium of 206 full color photographs
of Bronx Bomber legends. The latter by Andy Strasberg, is almost 200 jam
packed pages of images and stories. And finally from Abrams there is “The
Classic Palmer” with text by John Feinstein with photos by Walter Loos.
Priced at $19.95, this 140 page volume is a buy or gift for the legion of
Arnold Palmer fans out there.
From Globe Pequot Press comes
“Hack’s
191”by Bill Chastain and
“The
Baseball Hall of Shame” by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo. The Chastain
work focuses on Hack Wilson and his incomparable 191 RBI’s in 1930.
The Nash and Zullo’s effort is
an ongoing look at what they call “the most outrageous moments of all
time” in baseball. Oddball antics get the royal
treatment.
“The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History”
by Jim Baker and Bernard M. Corbett
($25.00, 360 pages) is a book told in the words of
those
who made the history.
Tighter editing would have made the whole tighter but there are parts that
truly sing especially to New England Pats
faithful.
“Stillpower” by Garret Kramer (Atria, $22.00, 191 pages)
is a slim product with a big message. It examines how to achieve excellence
in sports and life through an inner source. Simply written, yet packing complex
ideas, this Kramer quietly explains how all of us in this razzle dazzle world
can obtain a clear and quiet state of
mind.
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