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09-14-2002, 11:39 AM
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Baseball Is A Funny Game
Perhaps I missed it, but I've not seem a mention of one of the first baseball books I ever read BASEBALL IS A FUNNY GAME by Joe Garagiola (I still have my copy and read it again last night).
Written at a time when "kiss and tell" books were largely limited to Hollywood, this book is not Joe's autobiography but rather his observations and recollections of baseball itself. The book does stand up to 21st century reading, and while it includes no profanity and no juicy gossip, it is written with a critical eye and spells out some of the hardships involved in the life of a ballplayer in the 40s & 50s. I would consider this book the linear ancestor of Brosnan's great LONG SEASON and PENNANT RACE and Bouton's BALL FOUR
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