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Originally Posted by westofyou
No long winded love passages about his mothers beauty eh?
I just finished The Numbers Game by Alan Schwartz about the history statistics in baseball, and yes I feel even more powerful.
I'm also reading the John Adams Biography, I'm 1/3rd done, it is very good as recommended.
Book 3 of the journey is a easy to read piece on the band Wilco, I just started that.
Book 4 sits by a chair that I occasionally sit in if there's no cat there, it's Ty Cobb the biography by Charles Alexander a history professor at OU and a great deadball era Biographer.
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Adams Bio is a good piece of work.
If you like it, and enjoy quality works about that era, I'd also recommend a book by Richard Brookheiser - Gentlemen Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake who wrote the Constitution.
http://espn-att.starwave.com/eoe/hus...t/gallery6.jpg
Excellent work about a important but little known figure in that period. Quite the character as well, a womanizer with a wooden leg. Vital in NY history as well.
Recieved it for Christmas last year, read it quickly. Only been out for a year or so.
I'm still polishing off "Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...313697-6011813
Debating what I should move onto next.