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William, Mike Linn here.I`m new here, but I have a library of over 500 baseball books.Do you have anything specific in mind, a book about something or somebody.They all have pitching of course,but I have biography`s on lots of pitchers, Koufax, Walter Johnson, Cy Young, etc. Why don`t you go on like Amazon and make a list and I can tell you if inside it is what you may be looking for. Mike Linn
Thanks! I just completed a novel called The Pitcher and what I realized was there is not many novels about pitchers out there. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...#The Pitcher
Try "The celebrant : a novel" by Eric Rolfe Greenberg. It is a fiction book about Christy Mathewson and a baseball classic.
Try Cup of Coffee. It's about 18 different pitchers who had very short careers.
Read Pat Jordan's "The False Spring." Not only is it a great book, but it really gets into the mind of a young pitcher who struggled mightily to harness his talents.
Others include "Kings of the hill" kind a YA book."The head game : baseball seen from the pitcher's mound" by Roger Kahn
"High heat : the secret history of the fastball and the improbable search for the fastest pitcher of all time"
Mike do you have a book list somewhere? I would be interested to see how much of of our collections match up. My collection has a lot of biographies, and a strong focus New York in the 1950s. My list can be found at librarything under the same name.
Not sure which Mike your asking but I've got 500 baseball books that I own listed on here. I've read them all and I still have more to list. Take a look at what I have. You might find something interesting. Anything I rated 3 is a good read. A 4 is considered a must read and a 5 means you must own a copy of this. Let me know what you think.
By the way I probably have over 100 that I haven't read yet.
Mike I am still going through your list of books I scanned about the first two hundred. I noticed a few of the Pete Golenbock team histories those are awesome. I have the Cubs, Dodgers, Mets, Red Sox, and Cardinals/Browns. Also saw a few Sabr publications like Uncle Robbie, you can almost never go wrong with that stuff. What I didn't see and it might be there is not a lot of fiction and nothing by Marc Okkonen. Over good collection so far, I will try to take look at the rest soon.Here is a link to my colleciton. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Z...
I don't rate many of my books but I catalog the heck of them.
I only add what I've read, so I have about 100 to go. I don't know if you've ever read anything by Ronnie Joyner and Dave Bozman , they write biographies on older lesser known players like Gus Zernial and Don Gutteridge. Really good stuff. They don't have Isbn numbers so I'm adding them manually. I think McFarland publishing has a lot of good ones too.
Wow! I just went through your list and I'm shocked that I have some that you don't ,
If you haven't finished looking at my list, I've added another 25 I found.
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Lance, it's called Drinking Coffee With a Fork.
Ok, now I remember what your talking about. I'll get back to you.
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Used is the way to go. Always works well for me: $3.29+ $3.99 shipping
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Wanted to post a comment here as I have just read a GREAT fictional book on a young pitcher...But the thread was started by the author of that book! So no spoilers until I post my review later today.
In a previous conversation about books,there was a mention of the book "THE TEAMMATES', and I mentioned that it had been filmed much like Lawrence Ritter had recorded his talks in " THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES ." For those of you who have ESPN CLASSIC channel, it`s on this morning from 8a.m to 9a.m.Mike Linn
Hey Mike, I just checked out your latest blog about Bill Veeck and while I always thought it was a great story I never really believed it. Even if Veeck had the idea to stock a major league team with Negro League players there's no way he would have told Landis. Everyone knew Landis was a racist who vowed no blacks would play in the majors while he was alive. Even Branch Rickey didn't challenge him on this point. Landis always said in public that there was no ban on blacks so all Veeck had to do was sign someone and With the media coverage Landis would've been powerless to stop him. It's always been a great tale but I put it right up there with Ruth's calling his own shot. Veeck was just to smart to go to the Grand Wizard and give him a heads up that he was going to break his number one rule.
Like I said, when I read this book I knew most Veeck facts and didn`t think they could turn up something new on him. This was new to me. Whether it`s true or not, Veeck is still dead, so.......Mike Linn
p.s., but more important, did you like the blog?
Why wouldn't he? It is easy to read and well written with an interesting topic. I'm telling you to write a novel or even a short story.
Thank you all who have read and are enjoying. It took me awhile to get the confidence. There are many more to come, as our game gives me an unending amount of topics.Mike Linn
I just this second have started reading Robert Weintraub`s brand new book called "THE VICTORY SEASON" about the end of WWII and the beginning of "the era." even though I`m still reading about Mickey and Willie. I`ll let you know....Mike Linn
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I am on the hunt for other good books about Pitchers. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.
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