As a life-long fan of the New York Mets, I have been through the ups and downs with that team, lasting through some terrible times in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s […]
Book Review: If At First by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan – Game By Game
As the baseball season winds down, and my team is no longer competing, I look for ways to keep myself connected to the game while I wait for “next year.”. That usually […]
Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan’s Soul – Inspiration During the Hot-Stove Months
A love of baseball is something in the blood. If nothing else, I am living testimony to that. I was adopted when I was seven days old. My parents had no sports […]
Book Review: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella – Field of Dreams with J.D. Salinger
This book was the basis for the film Field of Dreams. A few things have been changed (J.D. Salinger apparently was not willing to be represented in the film), but if you […]
Book Review: When You Can’t Come Back by Dave & Jan Dravecky – Coping With the Most Difficult Times in Life
Dave Dravecky. How many people now know that name? How many can remember him in his glory in the 1980’s, pitching for the San Francisco Giants. He was having a good career. […]
Book Review: Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig in His Time by Ray Robinson – Simply Baseball’s Greatest Player
One player I admired throughout my life was Lou Gehrig. This is despite my distaste for all things New York Yankee as he was one stalwart who seemed to share the same […]
Book Review: One Pitch Away by Mike Sowell – What Happened During & After the 1986 Baseball Season
Being a New York Mets fan, the 1986 baseball season was the ultimate high in my life. I say that even having had three children, that’s how much of a fanatic I […]
Book Review: The Devil Wears Pinstripes by Jim Caple – Yankee Haters Unite!
As autumn rolls around, there seem to be a few things that are certain. One of them happens to be that the New York Yankees will be playing in the post-season. The […]
Book Review: The Pitcher’s Mom by Heather Choate Davis
This came up as suggested reading in my Kindle Unlimited account. I was anticipating a story of a mother shadowing her son’s career as a professional baseball player, from the early years […]
Book Review – Doc: A Memoir by Dwight Gooden and Ellis Henican
I’ve been a Mets fan for as long as I can remember. I have a vague memory of watching a baseball game very young, on my parents’ black and white television in […]
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