What are you reading now?

[kbrake]

Getting ready to start Baseball Between The Numbers....sure someone on here has read it. Whats everyone think?

[westofyou]

Getting ready to start Baseball Between The Numbers....sure someone on here has read it. Whats everyone think?

I've browsed through my copy, at times I find it too dry. It's also a rehash of many of the things BP has espoused for years, so if you're a regular reader of the site you'll find some repeating.

[westofyou]

I just cracked open Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen about Magellan & his trip around the globe. Been eyeballing it at the Bookstore for a while now - when it hit the sale rack this week I picked it up.

Spoiler----











The little manifest destiny feller gets it before he gets home.

[kbrake]

I've browsed through my copy, at times I find it too dry. It's also a rehash of many of the things BP has espoused for years, so if you're a regular reader of the site you'll find some repeating.

Thanks WOY. No I'm not a reader of the site so hopefully its all new to me. It was marked down to 5$ at our campus bookstore so I figured it was worth a shot.

[westofyou]

Thanks WOY. No I'm not a reader of the site so hopefully its all new to me. It was marked down to 5$ at our campus bookstore so I figured it was worth a shot.

It's a good book, it will probably be a good reference book for debates about the game.

[marcshoe]

Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton

[jmcclain19]

Getting ready to start Baseball Between The Numbers....sure someone on here has read it. Whats everyone think?

I agree about WOY's comment about it being a little dry - the best part is you don't have read it as a serial story - just read the introduction & first chapter, then from then on, pick a chapter that sounds interesting and skip around. The Ricky Henderson/Pete Incavilia story was a good read, as was the Billy Beane Post season chapter. The Mario Mendoza story is as well.

I've only been a BP reader for about 15 months or so - and I found it a great introduction to baseball statistical analysis.

[jmcclain19]

Spoiler----

The little manifest destiny feller gets it before he gets home.

You totally ruined it for me :

[Jpup]

"The Hardcore Diaries" by Mick Foley

[pedro]

Just started "The Big Oyster" tonight.

[Gainesville Red]

With Jackie Robinson Day upcoming I decided to re-read "The Boys of Summer," by Roger Kahn. Finished it last night. I enjoyed it even more the second time.

[zombielady]

The instruction manual to my new camera... it's as thick as War and Peace... well, not really... but close!

[BoydsOfSummer]

Instuctions...we don' need no stinkin' instructions...

[nycredsfan]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. This was just recently translated into English and reads like a novel that Borges would've written.

[Mutaman]

"The Hardcore Diaries" by Mick Foley

I just finished "Tangeled Ropes", the autobiography of Superstar Billy Graham. A great book and highly recommended. His stories of starting out with DR. Jerry Graham or his training up in Calgaery, Alberta, Canada with Stu Hartt are hilarious.