Comments on: Book It, Dano

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:31 +0000

7) Yeah, the Araton book is okay. In the “Boys of Summer” mold. Araton doesn’t have the same chops as Kahn for book-writing, or the same rich subject matter. Still, it’s a good read. Sorry that I neglected to mention it earlier.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:14:54 +0000

Can’t wait to get into the Raab book over the holidays. I also want to check out the Musial book, and Harvey Araton’s new one on the ’70′s Knicks.

By: Bluenatic

Bluenatic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:00:13 +0000

5) Indeed. I guess it’s also worth mentioning that many of the best sports books I read in 2011 were not published this year. A few that come to mind are Joe Drape’s Our Boys (2009), Jim Brown’s Out of Bounds (1989), Stephen J. Dubner’s Confessions of a Hero Worshipper (2003), Jonathan Rendall’s This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own (1999) and Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro (1999). All outstanding.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:44:56 +0000

4) And George Vecsey’s Musial book was solid, too.

By: Bluenatic

Bluenatic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:53 +0000

A fine list, Alex. You and I are the two people who read Wilker’s BNB book, it would appear. Other sports titles I rather enjoyed in 2011 include Ernie Palladino’s Lombardi and Landry and Dave Bidini’s Home and Away.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:45:24 +0000

2) Interesting. The Raab book was a ton of fun. Ditto for the Wilker. And Flip Flp Flyball, well, there ain’t nothing else like it.

By: Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:41:40 +0000

Sorry, make that 1.5/10. Thanks to Al, read some of the Clemente and At The Fights. FWIW, as a long time comic book reader, I could not follow the Clemente book very well. Confusing marriage of words and images.

By: Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:39:08 +0000

Ah, 0-10. That’s what I get for committing to A Song of Fire and Ice for several thousand pages.