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Looking at taking a trip back down memory lane. Are there any books from the 1980's are that really worth the read?
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The Bad Guys Won, its about the 1986 Mets.Originally posted by Cap78 View Postunknown brooklyn cabbie " how are the brooks doin"
unknown fan "good they got three men on base"
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Read some reviews on that that were not the best, from it being just a long magazine article to being critical of authors sourcesOriginally posted by theAmazingMet View PostComment
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Jay Johnstone's Temporary Insanity. If only for a verbatim transcript of what Lee Elia said when he ripped the Cubs fans.Dave Bill Tom George Mark Bob Ernie Soupy Dick Alex Sparky
Joe Gary MCA Emanuel Sonny Dave Earl Stan
Jonathan Neil Roger Anthony Ray Thomas Art Don
Gates Philip John Warrior Rik Casey Tony Horace
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I read The Bad Guys Won and wouldn't recommend it.Comment
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Check out George Will's Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. . I remember enjoying when I read it some 20 years ago.
POST #15,000!!!Last edited by Honus Wagner Rules; 06-29-2012, 10:17 AM.Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.-Crash DavisComment
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I enjoyed Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent. You may or may not like this type of book but i do. On the same line as Pure Baseball by Keith HernandezMy blog - http://sandlotwisdom.blogspot.com/Comment
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The best suggestion I can think of would be Roger Angell, and his book Season Ticket. This one covers the seasons 1983 through 1987. Roger Angell is my favorite baseball author, and maybe my favorite author overall. He writes about each season, from the perspective of his place as a free lance writer whose material often shows up in the magazine The New Yorker. He's the best in our time, IMO.
Catfish Hunter, RIP. Mark Fidrych, RIP. Skip Caray, RIP. Tony Gwynn, #19, RIP
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Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson later. -- Dan Quisenberry.Comment
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You can get a free 4-week trial access to the New Yorker archives, so if you read fast, you can get all of Roger Angell, Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," James Thurber's "Catbird Seat," and so forth all the way back to 1925. newyorker.comOriginally posted by abolishthedh View PostIndeed the first step toward finding out is to acknowledge you do not satisfactorily know already; so that no blight can so surely arrest all intellectual growth as the blight of cocksureness.--CS PeirceComment
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Thomas Boswell also had a book covering some of the seasons from the mid-80s. Terry Pluto had a fascinating book on the winter meetings following the 1984 season that provides an inside look at how the process of deal making in the off season was done. Then there are the player diary books of a season that came out such as Keith Hernandez for the 85 Mets, Phil Niekro for the 85 Yankees and the Niekro brothers together for the 87 season as they traded messages to each other.Comment
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Haven't read it, so not sure how well it fits into your timeframe, but 1989 Rookie of the Year Gregg Olson has put out a self-pubbed book, a compilation of stories shared by his teammates. Olson is now a scout for the Padres.
http://sbpra.com/GreggOlsonandOceanPalmer/Comment
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