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Quote: Originally Posted By Bootone on 3/04/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By winnetka1 on 3/03/2010
Bunts by George Will ???? anybody read it? Just picked it up at a used bookstore

Haven't read that one...anyone else

It is kind of blah - it is a collection of Will's articles/essays on baseball. Individually they are pretty solid, but there is a lot of repetition in the subject matter.

I just finished The Machine and definitely enjoyed it.

Quote: Originally Posted By acn24 on 3/05/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By Bootone on 3/04/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By winnetka1 on 3/03/2010
Bunts by George Will ???? anybody read it? Just picked it up at a used bookstore

Haven't read that one...anyone else?

It is kind of blah - it is a collection of Will's articles/essays on baseball. Individually they are pretty solid, but there is a lot of repetition in the subject matter.

I just finished The Machine and definitely enjoyed it.

Yes, blah is the right word, I picked it up years ago read it and forgot about it until these posts - very forgettable, but if you got it cheap, well nothing wrong with that.

Tony Kornheiser once titled a book "I'm back for more cash" which is basically the same reason this book was done, to make a little bread - nothing wroing with that certainly, but not a reason to read a book

I'm about 30% thru the new Willie Mays book by James Hirsch and it's very good so far. It's full of stuff I had no idea about, including how Jackie Robinson had no use for Mays during the civil rights stuff.

Do not read "the rise of the bulldogs" about Fresno State in 2008. I am almost finished with it and it is quite boring.

I just finished Mike Vaccaro's book,The First Fall Classic,about the 1912 Red Sox-Giants World Series.I thought it was outstanding.Nice readable style and well researched.

I finished the Mays book and it was phenomenal. It gets a 10 out of 10 from me.

Just ordered four baseball books - anyone read any of these?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown - Mickey McDermott, Howard Eisenberg

Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus - John Theodore, Ira Berkow

Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life - Hank Greenberg

The High Hard One - Kirby Higbe, Martin Quigley

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Two Books that are 100% awesome and haven't seen mentioned:

COBB - Way better than the movie (not even close) and fascinating

HOW THE BAD GUYS WON - Story of the '86 Mets and cocaine, women, booze, funny ****