Cooperstown at the Crossroads- Book Review
Cooperstown This is known at the quality score (QS), The score takes the whole on-field achievement on a 100 point scale.
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Common Enemies
“Common Enemies” is book written by Thomas F. Schaller about how racial overtones changed the landscape of college sports. The full tittle of the book is: “Common Enemies: Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football and the Racial Transformation of College Sports” The book intertwines two of the most successful college sports teams of the 1980’s, the Miami…
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Memory Man Series
Memory Man Series. First: RECOMMENDATIONS for my next read? I have completed the Memory Man series with the other four that followed. Although each book has similarities in its characteristics as to how they are laid out, they are all worthy of read. If you liked Memory Man, then these are good enough…
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Loserville:How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta―and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
The book is an intriguing look at the ways that sports and politics can go together to achieve success. The authors takes us inside to how economic and social upheaval were tackled in the face of race relations.
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Tom’s Library Shelf
On the first play of his first game, Decker got hit so hard, he got knocked out and broke both legs
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Charlie Murphy: The Iconoclastic Showman Behind the Chicago Cubs
I had never heard of Charlie Murphy until I got this book. Growing a Cardinals fan I had no interest in the Cubs. However. this book is well written and researched by author James Cannon and it held my interest throughout the entire book. There is references about other notable people in baseball during this…
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The Fast Ride: and the Undoing of A Sure Thing
The Fast Ride author Jack Gilden gives us the untold story of how Spectacular Bid, a sure thing, lost the third leg of the Triple Crown. But before he got there, he took us on a historical path of the politics of Baltimore and the inside workings of the famed Pimlico Race Course. Spectacular Bid…
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Black Cowboys of Rodeo
There was a struggle for racial equality in the cowboy circuit along with human rights issues and social injustice.
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
The Wax Pack Book Review The Wax Pack by Brad Balukjian is a 280 page book that was published by the University of Nebraska Press as he seeks to go on the road to interview those players found in a old pack of Topps baseball cards. He attempted to locate each of the players in…
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Jocks A Memoir by Burt Golden
Jocks by Burt Golden Jocks is the true meaning of “Alls Well that Ends Well” – William Shakespeare “Jocks” is an interesting story which chronicles he life of East Los Angeles resident, Burt Golden. At the time we know him in the book, all he wants to do is play baseball. It becomes his great…
