Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove

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Summary: Plays The Field
Review: A well researched, written and needed book on one of baseball's fascinating subjects: the baseball glove. Liberman has touched all the bases and ... fingers on this
equipment topic.
My favorites and I'm sure many readers will find highly interesting, are the interviews with former and current major leaguers, the men who trusted and trust their living with this tool.
It's a fine catch for any baseball fan.

Rating:
Summary: Plays The Field
Review: A well researched, written and needed book on one of baseball's fascinating subjects: the baseball glove. Liberman has touched all the bases and ... fingers on this
equipment topic.
My favorites and I'm sure many readers will find highly interesting, are the interviews with former and current major leaguers, the men who trusted and trust their living with this tool.
It's a fine catch for any baseball fan.

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Summary: Not What I expected
Review: Being a lifelong baseball fan and a collector of vintage baseball gloves for over ten years, I anticipated this book's release since the end of 2002. I'm extremely disappointed; trivial content, numerous mistakes, and lackluster photography. I was expecting a doctoral thesis but wound up reading a D- freshman term paper. I can name dozens of glove collectors who could have written a more informative book.

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Summary: Glove Affairs - Loved The Book!!
Review: I must say upfront that I am not a glove collecter, so my perspective may be different from the other gentleman. However I am a true baseball fan. A big part of the enjoyment of baseball when you are young is getting your first baseball glove. For me, it started with an old hand-me -down fom my father - so seeing a lot of the old gloves and pictures of the great baseball stars was enjoyable. The bottom line is that this book lived up to the reason I bought it ... it was FUN to read for me. I am going to give it to my son to read and I think it would be an excellant book for all little league players as well. It is obvious that the author has a real passion for the baseball glove and wrote a book that reflected that. I especially enjoyed the stories, the ideosynchrasies of different professional players and the illustrations. I learned a lot of things about the baseball glove that I did not know. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A Glovely CASEY Award Finalist
Review: This book received many nominations for the 2003 CASEY Award. Amazingly, it is the first book on its subject. Nominators obviously thought it is a very fun book to read and have. What will the CASEY judges think?

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Summary: Nice Book
Review: This is a really neat book. Very different. It covers lots of angles on gloves. Famous people remember their first glove, the history of the glove, pro players and all their insights about gloves, plus fixing a glove and buying a glove and breaking them in. It's nostalgic, but it doesn't hit you over the head with the nostalgia and all that like a lot of baseball books do. These glove collectors on www.Amazon.com seem to have a beef about the book not being a reference book for them, but I wouldn't want that kind of book. This one covers all of the bases!

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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This is a wonderful book. It's well written, has a good variety of information and is very attractive in it's presentation, plus it's "accessible" to all types of baseball fans. If you're a glove aficionado (which I am not) perhaps you'll not find all you would hope for here, but that sort of book wouldn't be anywhere near as useful. Oh, and I grew up across the street from Noah Liberman and we played lots of sandlot ball together, although I've not seen him in two decades. Reading his book makes me miss those good old days. I still have the glove I used back then but I have to admit it's got some mildew, and I know that's at least one strike against me.

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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This is a wonderful book. It's well written, has a good variety of information and is very attractive in it's presentation, plus it's "accessible" to all types of baseball fans. If you're a glove aficionado (which I am not) perhaps you'll not find all you would hope for here, but that sort of book wouldn't be anywhere near as useful. Oh, and I grew up across the street from Noah Liberman and we played lots of sandlot ball together, although I've not seen him in two decades. Reading his book makes me miss those good old days. I still have the glove I used back then but I have to admit it's got some mildew, and I know that's at least one strike against me.

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Summary: Glove Affairs
Review: This is one of the most interesting baseball books I've read in a long time. Saw a positive review in the Tampa Tribune and so I bought it for my son, but I ended up reading it this weekend before he got to it! I never thought there was so much to know about the old glove...and the quotes are great. I'm not sure what Fuzzy's beef is about the pictures, because they're very vivid, they tell a great story. Lots of close-ups, plus action shots. I wish I still had my first glove now...