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Recommended Books

Billed as a Baseball book for the Maxim crowd, Hitting in the Clutch is a rowdy, crude, hilarious look at what really goes on inside the clubhouse and on and off the field among professional baseball players.

This books is a HOOT! I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a fictional Ball Four, written during the 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks season. Clutch, the fictional author of the book, and his buddies are a lot like high-school boys, always cracking one-liners, talking crude and looking for monkey. It may be fiction but I thoroughly believe a lot of it is likely to be the way some ballplayers really are (or do I just want to believe it?). As crude and rude as Clutch is, I found myself actually caring about him by the end of the book. It's one of the funniest books I've read in a while. Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore (or better yet, click on the image above!) and get a copy. You won't be sorry. Highly recommended!

5 stars!

Veteran pitcher Cody King takes the mound for Game Seven of the World Series unaware it will mark the final nine innings of his troubled existence. With each pitch, King confronts a past - from being abandoned by his teenage mother to fighting to keep his wife's love from fading away - filled with tragedy and talent. - from the book

I really enjoyed this book. It's structured much the same as Michael Shaara's For Love of the Game, but the content is quite different. Cody King is one of the greats and has taken the Warriors, perennial losers all the way to game 7 of the World Series. Intertwined with pitching the final game, he relives events of his very troubled past. The author definitely knows his baseball. The action is good and believable, but as with most good baseball fiction, it's about much more than baseball. I definitely recommend it!

I give it 5 stars, READ IT!

Favorite Quotes

• What it adds up to is that it is not baseball's responsibility to fit itself into our frantic society. It is, rather, society's responsibility to make itself worthy of baseball. That's why I can never understand why anybody leaves the game early to beat the traffic. The purpose of baseball is to keep you from caring if you beat traffic. -Bill Vaughan, Kansas City Star columnist, 1970
  
  
• I loved the game. I'd have played for food money. I'd have played for free and worked for food. It was the game, the parks, the smells, the sounds. Have you ever held a bat or a baseball to your face? The varnish, the leather. And it was the crowd, the excitement of them rising as one when the ball was hit deep. The sound was like a chorus. Then there was the chug-a-lug of the tin lizzies in the parking lots, and the hotels with their brass spittoons in the lobbies and brass beds in the rooms. It makes me tingle all over like a kid on his way to his first double-header, just to talk about it.
  -Joe Jackson, in W.P.Kinsella's Shoeless Joe Jackson
  
  
• It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
  -A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind"
  
  
• I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.
  -Annie Savoy, in the movie "Bull Durham"
  
  
• Playing baseball is as good as sex. - Pete Rose
  
  
• Baseball is supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everybody would be doing it. The hard is what makes it great.
  -Tom Hanks to Geena Davis, in the movie "League of Their Own"
  
  
• The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
  -Terrance Mann in the movie, "Field of Dreams"
  
  
• It's like joining an enormous family with ancestors and forebears and famous stories. And it's a privilege. It means a lot. And the people who tell me they hate baseball, they're out of baseball - they sound bitter about it. But I think they sense what they are missing. I think that they feel that there's something that they're not in on which is a terrible loss. And I'm sorry for them.
  -Roger Angell

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