What sports books are you reading this summer?

Exactly why I snuck in there in June before it got nuts.

 

I finished the ESPN book a couple weeks ago. It was pretty good, but would have worked better at 350 pages and cutting out a lot of the filler.

I just started Scorecasting, and have Leavy's Mantle book, the Hillenbrand book and When March Went Mad sitting in my bullpen.

 

In your long pants?

 

Another good place to snag books (and I apologize those not in this area) is the book shop at the Saratoga Library. They have a separate horse section, of course.

 

I'm about to buy "The Book of Basketball" on Kindle. I liked the sample. Any thoughts?

 

I hope Doug Glanville writes better than he does analysis on Baseball Tonight and the like. He's been really disappointing.

 

Yeah, he got a lot of mileage of being "a smart guy who happened to be a baseball player" during his playing career, but he might just be smart for a baseball player.

 

Just picked up Bruce Weber's "As They See 'Em" at the recommendation of a friend.

 

No shorts allowed in the Joe Hirsch Pressbox. Other forms of deviant, corrupt behavior, of course, are de rigueur.

 

It's two books away for me as I make my way through my Christmas gifts.

 

It's too bad the bulk of the non-horse press won't fully appreciate just how funny that is.

. . . while not overlooking the seemingly-endless residence of The Man Who Wouldn't Leave, whose noxious presence continues to be condoned by management, for some incomprehensible reason . . .

 

Sirs, Madames,

I've had Howard Bryant's Hank bio sitting there all summer. Books to write, my 90-year-old father's broken hip and the decline and death of my mother-in-law have prevented me from getting around to it.

YHS, etc