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New titles explore the art, science, history, and business of
baseball and other popular American sports.
Baseball is the centerpiece of this spring’s sports titles, with big-name mem-
oirs and bios lining up alongside stories of how the business end of things
gets done.
Two of the big memoirs are from opposite sides of home plate: Jorge Posada’s
The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes
covers the New York Yankees
catcher’s 17 years in the Bronx, as well as his childhood in Puerto Rico. Then
there’s
Pedro
, by Pedro Martinez, a memoir from the three-time Cy Young
Award–winning pitcher, who was just inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is promising a “bold, no-holds barred”
account of his life and career.
Another fiery personality is revisited in
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
by
Charles Leerhsen, in which Leerhsen sets out to discover whether Cobb really
was, as the common wisdom now holds, a bitter, woman-hating racist.
Kent Babb’s
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall
of Allen Iverson
tells the story of the former pro basketball player whose
on-court brilliance was matched by his troubled personal life.
The latest from Steve Kettman,
Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson
Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
, tracks how Alderson,
who was in charge of the Oakland A’s during the original moneyball days,
applied his management philosophy to an ailing New York Mets.
Jon Pessah’s
The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League
Baseball’s Power Brokers
offers another look at the business side of sports,
focusing on just how dramatically baseball has changed in the past 20 years.
The early 1980s are the backdrop of two baseball histories.
Split Season:
1981—Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike That Saved
Baseball
, by Jeff Katz, revisits the 1981 season, which was broken in two
by a player strike. Then there’s
The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City
Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball’s Most Absurd and
Entertaining Controversy
, by Filip Bondy, the story of a very You Tube-
able incident that saw a game-winning home run nullified because of an
obscure rule.
Two of this season’s titles highlight the lengths obsession can drive even
the most nonathletic among us. Brin-Jonathan Butler’s
The Domino Diaries:
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s
Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba
charts the sportswriter’s decade in
Havana hanging out with the country’s top boxers and falling for the Cuban
culture.
Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity
by Asher Price
details the 42-year-old author’s yearlong quest to dunk a basketball.
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