I'm just about to start reading Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti.
Anyone have any other recommendations? Have to fill those hours between games with something, might as well read. Or I could pay attention to my wife and family, but you know
I really enjoyed Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
Always Red (05-19-2013)
Pretty much anything by Greg Rhodes.
http://www.amazon.com/Cincinnatis-Cr...8974226&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Cincinnati-Red...8974226&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Crosley-Field-...974281&sr=1-16
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Red-Dynast...974301&sr=1-17
http://www.amazon.com/Redleg-Journal...974316&sr=1-18
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Eightee...974334&sr=1-19
Originally Posted by Raisor
Always Red (05-19-2013),Bob Borkowski (05-19-2013),cumberlandreds (05-20-2013),RichRed (05-19-2013),Roy Tucker (05-19-2013)
The Machine by Joe Posnanski. Loved it. Then go and read everything else he has written especially The Soul of Baseball....my favorite baseball book.
Always Red (05-19-2013),mbgrayson (05-19-2013),WildcatFan (05-20-2013)
I'll second The Machine. As a fan born after the BRM, it is an amazing read into that team.
Domo Arigato, Here Comes Joey Votto
---TRF
"I do what I want to do and say what I want to say."
--Bronson Arroyo
I concur. Very good book about the BRM.
The book about the 6th game of the 1975 is good too. Quite a bit of info about the BRM. I can't remember the name of it now.
I just finished Tales from the Dugout by Tom Browning. Good book about the 1980's and early 90's Reds teams. Mainly funny stories told by Browning. It's not a tell all but some good info about the 1990 team.
Reds Fan Since 1971
Game Six was pretty good read.
That was the name I couldn't remember. Pretty obvious wasn't it.
Reds Fan Since 1971
Cincinnati Reds - Lee Allen (1948)
Pennant Race - Jim Brosnan
I'm sure I've mentioned it before but Pennant Race is one of my favorite books of any genre. A great look inside the game, a full decade before Ball Four came out, and a Reds pennant winner to boot.
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
The Cincinnati Game - Lonnie Wheeler
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
The Main Spark by Sparky Anderson and Si Burick
Lots of great stuff about the BRM.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
I just bought this one for Kindle. I an tell you in a couple of days if it was worth it. If you have a Kindle it's on sale now for $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L8K85M/...4466410_M1T1DP
Reds Fan Since 1971
Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War by Robert Gellately.
Oh, and The Machine.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
WildcatFan (05-20-2013)
Thanks for the tip. I picked up the Browning book while I was there.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
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