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hamonrye · 03-21-2003, 07:15 AM

here goes...

my turn at bat-ted williams
the heart of the order, how life imitates the world series, why time begins on opening day-thomas boswell
cobb-al stump
the summer game, five seasons, late innings, season ticket-roger angell
iron horse:lou gehrig in his time, the home run heard round the world-ray robinson
the boys of summer, the era 1947-1957-roger kahn
babe-robert creamer
pure baseball

itch by pitch for the advanced fan-keith hernandez

these are just a few of my favorites. i'm currently reading a legend in the making by richard tofel. it's the story of the 1939 yankees and tofel makes a compelling case for this particular yankee squad possibly being the best of all time. i'm not a yankee fan, but i found it to be a pretty good read.

roger angell is my favorite. he has my ear as a fellow met fan and he writes beautiful sentences about the game i love, like, "Midsummer baseball feels as if it would last forever; late-season baseball becomes quicker and terser, as if sensing its coming end, and sometimes, if we are lucky, it explodes into thrilling terminal colors, leaving bright pictures in memory to carry us through the miserable months to come."

03-21-2003, 07:15 AM	#28
hamonrye Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 335	here goes... my turn at bat-ted williams the heart of the order, how life imitates the world series, why time begins on opening day-thomas boswell cobb-al stump the summer game, five seasons, late innings, season ticket-roger angell iron horse:lou gehrig in his time, the home run heard round the world-ray robinson the boys of summer, the era 1947-1957-roger kahn babe-robert creamer pure baseballitch by pitch for the advanced fan-keith hernandez these are just a few of my favorites. i'm currently reading a legend in the making by richard tofel. it's the story of the 1939 yankees and tofel makes a compelling case for this particular yankee squad possibly being the best of all time. i'm not a yankee fan, but i found it to be a pretty good read. roger angell is my favorite. he has my ear as a fellow met fan and he writes beautiful sentences about the game i love, like, "Midsummer baseball feels as if it would last forever; late-season baseball becomes quicker and terser, as if sensing its coming end, and sometimes, if we are lucky, it explodes into thrilling terminal colors, leaving bright pictures in memory to carry us through the miserable months to come."