OT: Read any good books lately?

[KCRfan1]

After Many A Summer by Murphy. It's about the Giants and Dodgers leaving NY for LA and SF. The book goes into the history of both organizations and the ownership personalities.

[hoot-owl]

I don't think you can go wrong picking something off the Casey Award listing. Last year's winning book on Bill Veeck was a treat as were a few of the other finalists.

[johnmh71]

I am reading "Baseball When the Grass was Real" by Donald Honig. It has been around awhile and I am finding it to be an excellent read. Some great profiles and stories from players that played between the twenties and forties.

[byrone]

Originally Posted by hoot-owl

I don't think you can go wrong picking something off the Casey Award listing. Last year's winning book on Bill Veeck was a treat as were a few of the other finalists.

Does the new Veeck book add anything not covered in "Veeck as in Wreck" (which I read at least once a year)?

[hoot-owl]

Originally Posted by byrone

Does the new Veeck book add anything not covered in "Veeck as in Wreck" (which I read at least once a year)?

Dickson's Veeck book is thoroughly researched--and includes details from his youth to old age. From growing up almost as part of the Cubs organization (I believe his dad was a senior executive) to his time in the Marines; from his early days as a promoter with the minor league Milwaukee franchise to his different major league ownership efforts.

I had read Veeck as in Wreck years ago. I think Dickson's effort is the best biography of Veeck out there.

[Vintagecatcher]

My pick would be John Tortes "Chief " Meyers, A Baseball Biography by William A. Young.

It's a excellent read about one of my favorite players.


Patrick

[bwbc917]

Banzai Babe Ruth by Robert Fitts was the best I've read lately.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Great new book on the deadball era, SMOKY JOE WOOD by Gerald Wood (no relation I don't think.)

Great read on his pitching years, the comeback as an outfielder and his long xareer at Yale.