Gaslamp Ball Book Club
by Dex on Apr 14, 2008 10:56 AM PDT
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PrintYou people and your reading. Fine. We'll try a book club. I don't want to run it though. Sooooo... Nominate your book and we'll let the wisdom of the Ballers come through as we decide what book to read. Keep in mind that if your book is chosen, you'll probably be responsible for posting the Book Club FanPosts.
So who wants in? What should we read?
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My recomendation...
Spitters, Beanballs and the Incredible Shrinking Strikezone: The Strories Behind the Rules of Baseball. Not only does it have a lot of funny baseball stories, but it is a good way to learn the rules of baseball, and why they exist.
Bouton or Luciano.
The first one shouldn't require much thought.
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by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 14, 2008 11:45 AM PDT reply actions
That's a good pt
Maybe Jay Johnstone
by Winfield's Ghost on Apr 14, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Summer of 49 or October 1964
Both great books and the first one has some great Jerry Coleman stories.
Fantasyland
If your a fantasy player, pretty cool insider story of a reporter playing in the toughest fantasy baseball league in the country. Just a thought.
by GeoffwithG on Apr 14, 2008 2:15 PM PDT reply actions
I loved fantasyland
I told my wife that it was the next baseball book that she should read. She had a good experience with Moneyball and Fantasyland would be a really likable followup. I just have to figure out where my copy is....
Longtime reader/first time poster...
But I read books like they were going out of style...if you're interested in how baseball was played a century ago "Crazy 08", by Cait Murphy is a great read. It gives a great history of the early National and American leagues, and details the pennant race of 1908 between the Giants and the Cubbies.
Also, even though its not a baseball book, Michael Lewis' most recent book, "The Blind Side" is just great story-telling. I wholeheartedly concur with the recomendations of "Fantasyland" and "Moneyball". I'd read Sam Walker and Michael Lewis' grocery lists, though, because they are both awesome writers.
Agree with you re: Lewis
Blind Side was fantastic.
by Winfield's Ghost on Apr 14, 2008 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought
we were gonna do Jerry Coleman's book?
Oh my god. Oh my god, what's happening to me? I'm like that Texas woman who gave her son brain damage by holding him under water. (gasps) I'm just like Barbara Bush! - Lois Griffin
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Apr 14, 2008 5:09 PM PDT reply actions
Well, we woulda had a shot
if you hadn't said anything. This is like when Jim Bouton spoke up in the players' meeting and screwed it up for everyone. See, it's getting all book-clubby in here already.
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by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 14, 2008 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You gotta start with the classics. I know it's fiction, but what about "The Natural" So many people base their feeling on it by what they see in the movie. Totally different. How many books end in failure? 2nd and 3rd choices...obviously Bouton's book, but my other would be George Will's "Men at Work". Read it (Tony Gwynn is prominently featured) and see how differently the game has changed from what he predicted it would be.
Funny you guys are doing a book club
I started one at school in October and we're still arguing over which book we should read first.
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by TheVinylCrocodile on Apr 14, 2008 8:52 PM PDT reply actions
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