European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books baseball words hit the Field on eve of season by David Wiessler United press International _ the baseball season opens monday. That Means pitching hitting and Fielding. It also Means Reading. A flood of baseball books arrive at this time of year. Here a a look at some of the wide Range appearing this Spring. Fenway by Peter Golenbock . Putnam a sons. Golenbock has been a baseball writer who specialized in the new York Yankees writing such books As the Bronx zoo and balls. Now he turns his attention to the Boston red sox. This Book on that fascinating team uses Oral history from players front office folks journalists and fans to augment the facts. I especially like the inclusion among the fans of John Updike who says his classic Hub fans bid kid Adieu in the new yorker came about just because he went out to see Fenway Park on a Lark to see Ted Williams play. Some of those Oral history baseball books can end up with a string of a it was the Bottom of the third and a remembrances that bog Down the narrative. But Golenbock picked the Best examples and wove them adroitly throughout the history dating Back to the beginning of the Century. He also gives a fair shake to the entire history of the team not just the most recent years. With the red sox a recent disappointments Many forget that this was the Best franchise in the american league for the first two decades of the Century a up to the time of the Sale of babe Ruth to the Yankees. The babe is Here. So is Teddy ballgame. And Yaz. But so Are Cyclone a nut ced Smoky Joe the Gray Eagle Harry Frazee double a old Moses the Little professor the Golden boy i and ii Agganis and Jensen Tom Yawkey the monster Eliante spaceman Tony a Pudge Roger the rocket and yes Billy Buck. If you done to know who All these people Are you better read this Book. If you do you la readily enjoy How Golenbock brings them to life. The Philadelphia Phillies and the can can Natl reds by Donald Honig Simon amp schuster. Honig already has several dozen baseball books to his credit and now is in the midst of putting out a series of illustrated books each one dealing with a different team. These Are typical of the illustrated Book genre minimum text and loads of those pictures in which infielders Are always in midair pitchers forever Are in their follow through and sluggers Are seen from the end of their bats and outstretched arms. They also served by Bill Gilbert Crown. Gilbert covers Well slowed ground in his Story of baseball and the Home front during world War ii. While there Are already Good books about this Era Gilberts addition is Well Worth the read even if you Are already familiar with the territory. He adds his own touch of being a youngster following his Washington senators who had Good seasons during this period and following the career of Bert Shepard. Shepard starts the Book As a promising Young Pitcher goes on to be a War hero who loses part of his leg and comes Back for a moment of glory in the big leagues pitching on a wooden leg. The Story begins in that glorious year of 1941 with Joe Dimaggio a 56-game hitting Streak and Ted Williams .406 average and ends in 1945 with the first of the stars returning to the big time. Flip of clock lighting by Tommy Henrich with Bill Gilbert Birch Lane press. Henrich the consistent clutch hitter for the new York Yankees from 1937 to 1950, relates his outstanding career from minor league Battles to coming his a is the red sox a Ted Williams Parks one in 1955. To the Yankees at the end of the Lou Gehrig Joe Dimaggio dynasty to leaving the team As the Yogi Berra Whitey Ford dynasty begins. This is not a kiss and Tell Book. It is More like a kiss and kiss Book. Henrich is such a decent Man that he has Little bad to say about anyone a teammates managers officials umpires or opponents. The one exception is Yankee general manager George Weiss who connived to keep Henrich out of the world series in 1950, his last season in the majors. The title by the Way comes from a description of Yankee bats coming to life late in the game in the Days when Ball was still played in the afternoon. Great moments in baseball by Tom Saver with Mary Appel Birch Lane press. Hall of Fame Pitcher Seaver tries his hand at a baseball Book but takes a different route. His Book contains Brief stories about 51 great events in baseball history a individual games series or whole seasons. You be got to have b los to make it in this league by Pam Postema with Gene Wojciechowski Simon amp schuster. From another Angle comes a Book by a former Umpire. Umpires have written books before but what makes this different is it is by Postema the woman who a few years ago had the Best shot at calling strikes in the big leagues. She did no to make it but her Book tells of her Effort through the lowest minors to triple a Ball. There is a lot of getting even with those who Postema thinks stood in her Way and there is a lot of drinking and cursing to show she really did try to fit in As one of the boys. Green cathedrals by Philip j. Lowry Addi son Wesley. Lowry discusses every major league Ballpark present and past to the beginning of professional baseball in the Middle of the last Century As Well As the Parks used by the Black baseball leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color Barrier. The last yank a by David Falkner Simon amp schuster. Falkner has come up with a thorough biography of Billy Martin. Falkner covers the former second baseman manager and off Field personality through his life from a teen age brawler in Oakland to the investigation of his Christmas death in a truck Accident. Everything is covered from his world series heroics to his brawls to his fights with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner to his miracles As a manager. A Billy Martin or Yankee fan will enjoy this  York times list fiction 1 the Pelican brie by John Grisham Iasi week 1 weeks on Lisl 4 2 Roll uni Sun by Michael Crichton last week 2. Weeks on list 8 3 the in Queen of a Batera by Terry Brooks last week 4, weeks on list 4 4 the Reed to Omaha by Robert Ludlum last week 3. Weeks on list 61 5 vol by Nicholson Baker last week 5 weeks on list 7 s Toho by Margaret wander Bonanno last week 6, weeks on list 3 7 Money t Beauty and the beat by gallery books Penguin Usa last week 7 weeks on list 15 i outer wedge reach by Robert Stone last week 10. 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