Bookshelf
A book Drew Brees should read: ‘Black Man in the Huddle’
LLANO, Texas — When Texas A&M University last September published Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of
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Black Man in the Huddle tells us Texas history we’d like to forget
Robert D. Jacobus is a skilled writer, but in Black Man in the Huddle he steps back and leaves most
Read moreDykstra’s book an ugly self-portrait that rings, mostly, true
Lenny Dykstra played baseball all-out and was nicknamed “Nails” because that’s how tough he was. The hell-bent effort, combined with
Read morePuig is ‘El Diablo’ in new book about the Dodgers
The Best Team Money Can Buy does not go on sale until July 14, and already it has created tsunami
Read moreBob Ryan: a Scribe everyone likes, deservedly so
Try as I might, I can’t be objective about Bob Ryan’s autobiography, Scribe: My Life in Sports, published by Bloomsbury.
Read moreHow Baseball Explains America – or used to
Hal Bodley’s How Baseball Explains America (Triumph Books) does indeed explain why baseball is the national pastime. Or is it
Read moreBlood Sport casts searing light on an unhealthy clinic
Biogenesis of America was the sort of pseudo health clinic that proliferates in South Florida, which for four centuries has
Read moreRose, with all his thorns, should be in the Hall
As a 21-year-old sports reporter in Atlanta, I was assigned to interview Pete Rose. Though excited about meeting a baseball
Read more‘Wooden’ as flesh and blood, not a coaching god
The more you know legendary coaches, the less you love them. You find that Lombardi neglected his wife and kids,
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