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Post by ornggnawer on May 3, 2020 7:13:01 GMT -8
During our non sports time this article link about a baseball book was good Sunday morning fun. During my hours of nothing to do, I may read the book. Has anyone and do you recommend? |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 3, 2020 8:26:02 GMT -8
During our non sports time this article link about a baseball book was good Sunday morning fun. During my hours of nothing to do, I may read the book. Has anyone and do you recommend? I have not read this book. Others I would highly recommend, which should keep you busy: "The Art of Fielding" (of course) "Stolen Season," by David Lamb. "Slouching Toward Fargo" "Small-Town Heroes" "Shoeless Joe" "The Last Boy" "Eight Men Out" "Sandy Koufax - a Life" "The Last Innocents" (early LA Dodgers) "The Dodgers Head West" "Southern League" by Portland author Larry Colton. |
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Post by ornggnawer on May 3, 2020 9:11:22 GMT -8
During our non sports time this article link about a baseball book was good Sunday morning fun. During my hours of nothing to do, I may read the book. Has anyone and do you recommend? I have not read this book. Others I would highly recommend, which should keep you busy: "The Art of Fielding" (of course) "Stolen Season," by David Lamb. "Slouching Toward Fargo" "Small-Town Heroes" "Shoeless Joe" "The Last Boy" "Eight Men Out" "Sandy Koufax - a Life" "The Last Innocents" (early LA Dodgers) "The Dodgers Head West" "Southern League" by Portland author Larry Colton. That's a good 3-4 more months of homebound reading you have offered. Placing my Amazon order now. |
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Post by Snafu on May 4, 2020 8:00:31 GMT -8
Give a thought to patronizing a local bookseller if possible.
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Post by Werebeaver on May 4, 2020 9:57:21 GMT -8
I have not read this book. Others I would highly recommend, which should keep you busy: "The Art of Fielding" (of course) "Stolen Season," by David Lamb. "Slouching Toward Fargo" "Small-Town Heroes" "Shoeless Joe" "The Last Boy" "Eight Men Out" "Sandy Koufax - a Life" "The Last Innocents" (early LA Dodgers) "The Dodgers Head West" "Southern League" by Portland author Larry Colton. That's a good 3-4 more months of homebound reading you have offered. Placing my Amazon order now. ”The Boys of Summer” by Roger Kahn is a classic. |
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Post by fishwrapper on May 5, 2020 20:03:03 GMT -8
While working on her degree at OSC, my mother-in-law took a writing course from an instructor named Bernard Malamud. We both enjoyed his book, "The Natural" - in fact, it's on my re-read pile for the summer.
(The movie wasn't so bad, either - but the book was better. Ain't it always the case?)
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Post by beaverintheberg on May 5, 2020 20:31:02 GMT -8
Ball Four... still a great read.
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Post by fishwrapper on May 5, 2020 20:36:27 GMT -8
Ball Four... still a great read. is another great read. I've been to games at Wahconah Park back in the day when they were making a go of it. Bouton's a great storyteller. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 6, 2020 9:52:39 GMT -8
Ball Four... still a great read. is another great read. I've been to games at Wahconah Park back in the day when they were making a go of it. Bouton's a great storyteller. "The Wax Pack" is a nice read. There is also a new biography of Bouton out, with considerable attention spent to his time with the Portland Mavericks. |
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Post by beavaristotle on May 6, 2020 10:49:03 GMT -8
Chumps to Champs: how the worst team in Yankee history led to the 90's dynasty. it's really the story of the beginnings of what we now call money ball and sybermetrics. Gene Micheal was a baseball genius. great read for a Yankee fans.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 6, 2020 13:31:02 GMT -8
While working on her degree at OSC, my mother-in-law took a writing course from an instructor named Bernard Malamud. We both enjoyed his book, "The Natural" - in fact, it's on my re-read pile for the summer. (The movie wasn't so bad, either - but the book was better. Ain't it always the case?) I thought that the movie was much better. The book is like a bad baseball version of the "Great Expectations" (original ending) but with less of a point. The movie is great and very American. Your happiness and success are in your hands. Doing the right thing and working hard will lead to happiness and success. The movie has a great moral and psychological message as opposed to the almost fatalistically futile Book of Job-esque print version. If God has it in for you, you will fail whether you make good choices and work hard or not. Maybe someone else took something else away from the book. I read it once and was not impressed. I mean c'mon. The book versus: Movie 1 Book 0. |
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Post by fishwrapper on May 7, 2020 10:40:33 GMT -8
The movie and the book are different. In just about every case, they have to be. Better? Each is good for what it is - the book is a good book, the movie is a good movie. Another Oregon (though not baseball) book that is very different from the page to the screen is Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion." Depending on which version you experienced first, the other may seem lacking. That's not to say the movie is bad - it's just not all the book was. The sights and sounds of a good book, for me, usually work better in the theater of the mind than the more limited screen of the theater.
And that final home run is a great scene. My favorite scene, though, is from early on, when he strikes out the Whammer. I thought the photography and editing was about as perfect as it could be to tell that part of the story.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 8, 2020 11:52:24 GMT -8
The movie and the book are different. In just about every case, they have to be. Better? Each is good for what it is - the book is a good book, the movie is a good movie. Another Oregon (though not baseball) book that is very different from the page to the screen is Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion." Depending on which version you experienced first, the other may seem lacking. That's not to say the movie is bad - it's just not all the book was. The sights and sounds of a good book, for me, usually work better in the theater of the mind than the more limited screen of the theater. And that final home run is a great scene. My favorite scene, though, is from early on, when he strikes out the Whammer. I thought the photography and editing was about as perfect as it could be to tell that part of the story. It was a good scene. I wish that the parts that followed were more like the book. The set-up in the book is way better. I think that the movie fixed the late middle and end of the book. |
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