May's Mutterings

Tag: baseball

  • Book review: A Great and Glorious Game by Bart Giamatti

    A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti by A. Bartlett Giamatti My rating: 5 of 5 stars I like baseball (a lot), but I don’t love baseball. (College basketball is my true obsession.) But Bart Giamatti’s essays about baseball makes me wish that I loved baseball as much as he did…

  • Book review: Ty Cobb by Charles Leerhsen

    Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ty Cobb has a horrible reputation as a racist, mean, and disreputable human being. The author’s premise in this biography is that much of the mythology surrounding Ty Cobb is erroneous, based on a biography by an author who took a…