How Life Imitates the World Series (The Penguin sports library)

Rating:
Summary: Inexhaustibly interesting and fun...
Review: Baseball rewards attention like no other sport, and no baseball writer today is more attentive - or funnier or more loving - than Thomas Boswell.
In this collection of already classic pieces he brings to life such superstars as Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, Tommy John and Rod Carew; he muses on the art of the spitball, the Big Bang Theory of run scoring, and Earl Weaver and the Baltimore Orioles' winning ways; and he evokes the texture of baseball from the sandlots to the minors to Cuba to the majors.

Rating:
Summary: Inexhaustibly interesting and fun...
Review: Baseball rewards attention like no other sport, and no baseball writer today is more attentive - or funnier or more loving - than Thomas Boswell.
In this collection of already classic pieces he brings to life such superstars as Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, Tommy John and Rod Carew; he muses on the art of the spitball, the Big Bang Theory of run scoring, and Earl Weaver and the Baltimore Orioles' winning ways; and he evokes the texture of baseball from the sandlots to the minors to Cuba to the majors.