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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 19:30:58 GMT
any and all recs are welcomed!  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 25, 2019 19:46:21 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 19:55:09 GMT
thx! just ordered it from my lib.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 25, 2019 20:18:14 GMT
thx! just ordered it from my lib. I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 20:53:36 GMT
thx! just ordered it from my lib. I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
sounds good! alas, not at my library.... you like roger kahn's the boys of summer?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 25, 2019 21:57:44 GMT
I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
sounds good! alas, not at my library.... you like roger kahn's the boys of summer? Yes and no. At times you think the Dodgers were Jesus' nine apostles.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 21:58:20 GMT
sounds good! alas, not at my library.... you like roger kahn's the boys of summer? Yes and no. At times you think the Dodgers were Jesus' nine apostles.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 25, 2019 22:48:40 GMT
I really can't think of a good book about just a World Series other than the 1919. Plenty of good chapters. Stuff I never knew. In the 2nd volume of Norman Macht's brilliant biography of Connie Mack, he tells of the 1929 WS and Game One. The legend always says that Mack played a "hunch". Instead of starting George Earnshaw or Bob Grove in Game One, he ran out Howard Ehmke. Ehmke was about 600 years old and had only pitched in three games since the end of July. Well, Methuselah Ehmke struck out 13 Cubs and effectively ended the series right there. Some hunch, right? Ehmke hadn't pitched because he was secretly following the Cubs around as a scout. He knew the lineup better than Joe McCarthy. And he played another trick. McCarthy asked Mack if he minded if his coach, Joe Tinker watched the A's batting practice. mack said sure. Then told his pitchers to throw pitches in the hot zones of the mighty A's hitter and the batter to whiff pitifully. So Tinker went back to Chicago with tales of how Jimmie Foxx couldn't hit this pitch and Black Mickey Cochrane couldn't hit this. So the Cubs pitchers threw this to Foxx and that to Cochrane and got cricks in their necks watching the baseballs leave the park.
This doesn't have shit to do with shit other than to remind you to read the Mack bio.
you like roger kahn's the boys of summer? Put it on your list to Santa. Best baseball bio I've ever read. Not just a good book about Mack, not just a good history of the Philadelphia Athletics but a good history of baseball from 1884 to the 1950's. Yeah, not much about some NL tema that the A's never met in the Series but it would be a fantastic history or the founding of the AL
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 23:18:09 GMT
sounds good! alas, not at my library....you like roger kahn's the boys of summer? Put it on your list to Santa. Best baseball bio I've ever read. Not just a good book about Mack, not just a good history of the Philadelphia Athletics but a good history of baseball from 1884 to the 1950's. Yeah, not much about some NL tema that the A's never met in the Series but it would be a fantastic history or the founding of the AL
cool. will do!  got any other book recs? got 2 open slots at the lib.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 25, 2019 23:20:59 GMT
sounds good! alas, not at my library.... you like roger kahn's the boys of summer? Yes and no. At times you think the Dodgers were Jesus' nine apostles.
you read this one? 
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 8, 2019 17:14:58 GMT
TheGoodMan19 starting this, don't think i've seen a baseball book about the early 80s... 
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Nov 8, 2019 17:32:12 GMT
I think I've mentioned this book in the past, but it was a fun read.  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 8, 2019 17:56:17 GMT
TheGoodMan19 starting this, don't think i've seen a baseball book about the early 80s... Never read it. Curious to read how the '81 strike "saved" baseball
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 18, 2019 21:08:45 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Nov 18, 2019 21:11:22 GMT
TheGoodMan19 starting this, don't think i've seen a baseball book about the early 80s... whats that about?.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 18, 2019 21:23:21 GMT
Sorry, now now. I'm usually reading baseball in March to May. Right now I'm on a Civil War kick. If I see anything, I'll let ou know
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 18, 2019 21:25:24 GMT
Sorry, now now. I'm usually reading baseball in March to May. Right now I'm on a Civil War kick. If I see anything, I'll let ou know
any topic is cool!
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Post by hi224 on Nov 18, 2019 21:25:42 GMT
Sorry, now now. I'm usually reading baseball in March to May. Right now I'm on a Civil War kick. If I see anything, I'll let ou know
I need some books pm me please.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 18, 2019 21:29:47 GMT
TheGoodMan19 starting this, don't think i've seen a baseball book about the early 80s... whats that about?. yanks, dodgers, bowie kuhn. it's ok.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 19, 2019 0:14:53 GMT
Sorry, now now. I'm usually reading baseball in March to May. Right now I'm on a Civil War kick. If I see anything, I'll let ou know
I need some books pm me please. Civil War? I’m at work now. I’ll have some tomorrow. I have over 200
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