The Reading Post

Books I've Read Recently

Neal Conan, "Play By Play"

NPR host leaves his job to take over play by play for a minor league team during a mini-midlife crisis. Midlife crisis? Baseball? I'm in. It was really well done, though-an interesting read and more than tangentially relevant.

Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, "The Yankee Years"

Made a bit of a fuss when it came out. Turned out to be a pretty good read, all in all. It does seem a bit hypocritical for Torre to go on and on about trust in a tell all book-but if he doesn't tell, there's no book. I liked reading it, but it was kind of creepy, too.

Seth Mnookin, "Feeding the Monster"

Kind of the inverse of "The Yankee Years"-much of the same time period, told from the Red Sox perspective. I had avoided this book for a while-it seemed like it was a little light on baseball, and more into the behind the scenes stuff-I didn't want to read about meetings and personal drama so much. But it was really more of a history of the team, going into a lot more detail, obviously, recently.

WP Kinsella, "Shoeless Joe"

A reread, after catching the end of the movie on TV. Still a winner.