What Are You Reading Right Now?

[Cap78]

1. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball by John Feinstein

A book focusing on several players in AAA back in 2012. Chris Schwinden of the Mets and others like Nate McLouth appear.

2. Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression by David George Surdam

Focuses on MLB in the Great Depression, how teams cut salaries and made changes to the game to stay afloat.

Hows the feinstein book?

[Cowtipper]

I'm currently reading Put It In the Book!: A Half-Century of Mets Mania by Howie Rose.

[Blue387]

Hows the feinstein book?

I like it. It's a book focusing on the life of AAA players, Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoya and an umpire. They give a chapter to guys like Brett Tomko, Nate McLouth, John Lindsey and Chris Schwinden, who bounced around the waiver wire in 2012.

[drdg]

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/met...ntry-1.1752193

[kcpajor]

Finally read Will Leitch's Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball. It was just incredible. I'd imagine Leitch isn't everyone's cup of tea around here, but I thought it was just great.

[jsontag]

The 1923 New York Yankees: A History of Their First World Championship Season by Ronald Mayer



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[hairmetalfreek]

Getting ready to start "Rage: The Legend of 'Baseball Bill' Denehy."

[CougaNova]

Just finished The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball. It is peer-reviewed and still mighty fascinating.

[abolishthedh]

I've been reading Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Takes A Swing At Baseball. Its great trivia for 15-30 minutes at a time as I relax after dinner. This book has all kinds of history which I was never aware of and wouldn't know where to look to learn about it. The contributors must have been associated with MLB HoF in some fashion.

[jsontag]

1921 : The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball supremacy in New York by Lyle Spatz & Steve Steinberg

[Blue387]

Retired catcher Jason Kendall has a book coming out this year, Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played by Jason Kendall and Lee Judge. I haven't read it yet but I've placed a hold on it from the library.

http://publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-03183-9

[Captain Cold Nose]

I've been reading Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Takes A Swing At Baseball. Its great trivia for 15-30 minutes at a time as I relax after dinner. This book has all kinds of history which I was never aware of and wouldn't know where to look to learn about it. The contributors must have been associated with MLB HoF in some fashion.

Are you finding everything to be accurate? Their Presidents book has some inaccuracies. Or misses a bit of important information while telling each page's story here and there.

[Cowtipper]

I'm currently reading Put It In the Book!: A Half-Century of Mets Mania by Howie Rose.

After getting distracted with other books, and getting only 20 pages or so into this one, I picked this one up and finished it. It was excellent.

[Dude Paskert]

Retired catcher Jason Kendall has a book coming out this year, Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played by Jason Kendall and Lee Judge. I haven't read it yet but I've placed a hold on it from the library.

http://publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-03183-9

Random quote..."Hitting home runs is really bad and should be avoided."
;^)

[abolishthedh]

CCN: In the Uncle John's book there happened to be one mistake over a name, but while there might have been a mistake somewhere, I appreciated so much trivia about the 19th Century which was included. Generally, the 19th Century material is terrific, even if it was only 95% accurate, because where else can you find detail about the origin of uniforms, gloves, baseball construction, team nicknames.....? The book was an amazing amount of trivia crammed into 280 pages or so. Then again, I have a larger threshold of allowance for accuracy, because one of my favorite baseball books is Leo Durocher's Nice Guys Finish Last, and Leo's book was tainted by his selective memory and discounted as such by some fans. I loved that book anyway, because his mistakes were forgiveable, IMO.

Anyway, I have just started Tim Wendell's book, Summer of '68. The political and sporting environment beyond baseball has information which is all new as an adult. My parents were news junkies, and the 1968 reminescence is good, but I only knew of Gates Brown and baseball's Willie Horton, and so not much about them. Through one day of reading, it will be sweet to read.