Baseball cards played a big role in my childhood. As I’ve written here before, I got my first cards when I was around three, started collecting a few years later and at one point had roughly 5,000 cards. I outgrew card collecting by the time I hit high school, though nostalgia leads me to buy [...]
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Book Review: Cardboard Gods
Posted: 16th May 2010 by Graham Womack in Baseball cards, Book reviewsTags: book review, Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Josh Wilker
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Classic book review: Summer of ’49
Posted: 20th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Book reviewsTags: book review, Summer of '49
Since reviewing The Boys of Summer here in November, I have been meaning to write about more classic baseball books that I have read. There are a few classics. Ball Four comes to mind, as does The Glory of Their Times, Ken Burns Baseball and a recent addition, Game of Shadows. But if The Boys [...]
Book Review: Bash Brothers
Posted: 23rd December 2009 by Graham Womack in Book reviewsTags: A Legacy Subpoenaed, Bash Brothers, book review, Dale Tafoya, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
As faithful readers of this space will know, I interviewed Jose Canseco in April 2008 on his promotional tour for his book, Vindicated. While researching Canseco in the days leading up to our meeting, I came across a notice for a forthcoming book on the former Oakland Athletics slugger and his teammate, Mark McGwire. The [...]
Classic book review: The Boys of Summer
Posted: 19th November 2009 by Graham Womack in Book reviewsTags: book review, The Boys of Summer
After more than a year, I finally finished The Boys of Summer this afternoon. Written by Roger Kahn and first published in 1971, the book is part oral history about the Brooklyn Dodgers and part recollection by the author of covering the team as a young reporter in the early 1950s. I’ve read many baseball [...]