The 33 Year Old Rookie, How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After 11 years in the minors by Chris Coste; Foreword by John Kruk; 2008; 199 pages; Ballantine Books, New York, NY; 6/25/09-6/27/09
Chris Coste (pronounced Coast) finally caught his dream. That was to make it to the major leagues, he chronicles the [...]
Battle Leadership, Some Personal Experiences of a Junior Officer of the German Army with Observations on Battle Tactics and the Psychological Reactions of Troops in Campaign by Adolf Von Schell, Captain Staff Corps, German Army; 1933; 95 pages; The Benning Herald, Fort Benning-Columbus, GA; Interlibrary Loan from the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; 6/22/09-6/25/09
This little [...]
Baseball Eccentrics, A Definitive Look at the Most Entertaining, Outrageous and Unforgettable Characters in the Game by Bill “Spaceman” Lee with Jim Prime; 2007; 206 pages; Triumph Books, Chicago, IL; 978-1-57243-953-5; 6/17/09-6/22/09
From Eddie Gaedel to Graig Nettles and everyone in between. This is an entertaining look at some great ballplayers, some medicore and some lousy [...]
Crazy Love, Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan with danae yankoski; 2008; 175 pages; 978-1-4347-6851-3; 6/15/09-6/17/09
Last Saturday I was in Sandy, (east of Portland) and visited our longtime friends Dennis and Cathy Simons and we got talking about books as we usually do. They gave me a copy of the book Crazy Love [...]
The Card, Collectors, Con Men and the True Story of History’s Most Desired Baseball Card by Michael O’Keefe and Teri Thompson; 2007; 245 pages; William Morrow, New York, NY; 978-0-06-112392-4; 6/12/09-6/15/09
After reading Card Sharks and this one would have to wonder why anyone would collect baseball cards. For the love of the game, and our [...]