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Tag: Baseball Books

A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: The Summer Game and Living Forever

September 6, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

“Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only

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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: The Art of Fielding and The Art of Fiction

July 18, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric – not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn’t storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing

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A Brit learning Baseball through Books: A Drive into the Gap and the selflessness of Roberto Clemente

June 16, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” – Kevin Guilfoile A Drive into the Gap was one of the first books about baseball that I ever read. My

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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Why Baseball Matters

June 5, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

“The game stands up and out in the lowest-common-denominator American culture of distraction, disruption, and interruption. For me, this distinction makes baseball the most intellectually stimulating, emotionally satisfying, and downright glorious pastime ever devised.” – Susan Jacoby It’s not likely

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Baseball Book Draft – Podcast Reading List

January 9, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

This reading list accompanies our baseball book podcast with Baseball by the Book‘s Justin McGuire. Here’s the link to the podcast. All title links track through to Amazon (where available in the UK), where you can add them to your

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