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10-12-2009, 11:24 AM
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New Book: Sixty Feet, Six Inches
Anybody here read this? It's billed as a conversation between Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson. Might be some interesting stories.
http://www.amazon.com/Sixty-Feet-Six...5368312&sr=1-1
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10-12-2009, 01:56 PM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/rundown...n.php?prgId=13 I want to read that book!
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10-12-2009, 08:33 PM
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10-13-2009, 08:59 AM
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11-05-2009, 03:48 PM
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Finally read this, here is my customer review posted at Amazon:
This book may be a little too technical for the casual baseball fan, but if you know and love the game, and want to learn a little more about the nuts and bolts of pitching and hitting, this is a great read. It's not great baseball literature like Roger Angell, or the best of Roger Kahn, more of an informal conversation between two hall-of-famers and World Series greats. It's a wealth of information about how the game is played, and more importantly, how it should be played. What makes it great is that there are a lot of fascinating anecdotes from both Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson interspersed with the technical stuff. Both men talk at some length about their early years in the game, and what they had to go through coming up as young black players in the 50's (Gibson) and 60's (Jackson). I already had great respect for Gibson, but have even more after reading this book. I wasn't as enamored of Reggie Jackson, but after reading Sixty Feet, Six Inches, I have new respect for him as well. Any serious student of baseball and baseball history would thoroughly enjoy this book.
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I saw Nolan Ryan throw 212 pitches in 11 innings one day at Yankee Stadium. It messed him up so bad that he had to retire 16 years later, when he was 46. Reggie Jackson-Sixty Feet, Six Inches Last edited by ol' aches and pains; 11-05-2009 at 07:48 PM.
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11-05-2009, 07:28 PM
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Gibson and Jackson also appeared with Scott Simon on NPR last weekend. I haven't read it but hope to. I do worry about Jackson's ego coming through a bit too much, but these were guys who respected the game and know a lot about what's wrong with it now.
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11-05-2009, 07:58 PM
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He also quoted Catfish Hunter's famous quip about the "Reggie" candy bar: "When you unwrap it, it tells you how good it is". Jackson admits it's a great line. I like Reggie Jackson a lot more than I did before reading this book.
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11-06-2009, 09:28 AM
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Thanks for that information. I feel better about getting that book now!
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11-07-2009, 02:32 PM
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I'll bet this book is chock full of tracers - not that there's anything wrong with that.
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11-07-2009, 02:48 PM
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Tracers?
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I saw Nolan Ryan throw 212 pitches in 11 innings one day at Yankee Stadium. It messed him up so bad that he had to retire 16 years later, when he was 46. Reggie Jackson-Sixty Feet, Six Inches
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