Wherever I wind up

A patron asked for this book (5/30/12); seemed interesting. And then, Dickey pitched a marvelous game yesterday, Saturday 2 June.

Day After No-Hitter, Dickey Puts Up More Zeros

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New York Times - 19 hours ago

R. A. Dickey saw the ninth inning of Johan Santana's no-hitter with a towel wrapped around his head, because he could not bring himself to ...

Living on the black

"Seasoned pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina ... experience very different seasons---one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to be there every year. Taking the reader through contract negotiations, spring training, the ups of wins and the downs of losses, and the people in their lives---family, managers, pitching coaches, agents, catchers, other pitchers---Feinstein provides a true insider's look at the pressure cooker of sports at the highest level" -- from publisher's web site.

As they see 'em

Book of the day on Book-a-Day calendar.

A New York Times reporter describes the perspectives he gained into the game of baseball while attending umpire training school and umpiring games firsthand, in an insider fan's account that also draws on the experiences of dozens of professional umpires.

Triumph and tragedy in Mudville

Paleontologist and baseball fan.

"For baseball fans who admire fine writing as much as a home-run swing,"

Even Kirkus praised it: "In this sparkling collection, the late paleontologist and popular science essayist (The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox, see above) gathers random writings on one of his many passions: baseball"