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By Dr.
Harvey Frommer
A Triple
Play of Top Baseball Reads
With the All Star Game on the
horizon and mid-summer approaching, a triple play of top baseball reads
is
there for the taking and the reading. From Triumph Publishers comes
STRANGERS
IN THE BRONX and RED SOX NATION. From Flatiron Books comes BIG DATA
BASEBALL.
All belong on your sports bookshelf.
STRANGERS
IN THE BRONX by Andrew O’Toole ($28.95, 277 pages) could have been
even better
with much tighter editing, an index and an inclusion of a Harvey
Frommer Yankee
book or two in the bibliography.
But
seriously and despite those flaws, the book is a diamond mine of data
(lots
re-cycled) about that long ago time of
the 1951 season, Yankees, Joe DiMaggio leaving and Mickey Mantle coming. The real strength of the book is the time
machine nature of a different world of baseball and sports writing.
Yankees.
TOP DRAWER
RED
SOX NATION is the third act of the prolific and talented Peter
Golenbock’s first
act of the same name with added material – an oral history. Originally
published in 1992 as Fenway then
again in 2005 as Red Sox Nation,
third terrific tome tantalizes the reader with its depth and breadth of
BoSox
lore, legend and language. HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED
ESPECIALLY FOR SOX FANS
Big
data Baseball by Travis Sawchik (Flatiron Books, $26.99, 242 pages)
is
more
than a fascinating book about baseball and numbers. It is an inside
look at how
the Pirates of Pittsburgh were transformed from a small markets
franchise into
big time player. Sub-tiled, “Math, Miracles and the End of a 20-year
Losing Streak,
“The book is Moneyball plus. A KEEPER
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IN THE
WORKS FOR FALL 2015: Written by
acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer, with an
intro by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When
It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the
ground-breaking AFL–NFL World Championship Football game played on
January 15, 1967: Packers vs. Chiefs. Filled with new insights,
containing commentary from the unpublished memoir of Kansas City Chiefs
coach Hank Stram, featuring oral history from many who were at the
game—media, players, coaches, fans—the book is mainly in the words of
those who lived it and saw it go on to become the Super Bowl, the
greatest sports attraction the world has ever known. Archival
photographs and drawings help bring the event to life. |
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Dr. Harvey Frommer is in
his 39th year
of writing books. A noted oral historian and sports journalist, the
author of
42 sports books including the classics: best-selling “New York City
Baseball,
1947-1957″ and best-selling “Shoeless Joe and Ragtime
Baseball,”
his acclaimed Remembering Yankee Stadium was published in 2008 and
best-selling
Remembering Fenway Park was published to acclaim in 2011.
Frommer
mint condition collectible sports
books autographed and discounted are available always from the author.
FROMMER SPORTSNET
(syndicated) reaches a readership in the millions and is housed on
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