What did you read this year?
Brian’s
average rating for
2023
3.6
3.6
Missing Link between my father's dalliance with baseball through the mid-60's and the game I came to know and love as a child of the 80's. Expansion, the move indoors, and the protracted competition for Americans' attention and entertainment dollar that baseball once took for granted are chronicled with prose that isn't argumentative for the Good Old Days or manipulatively emotional. Instead, Angell uses a light, lyrical style to look in on the g
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Great book. Brinkley will immerse you in the JFK-fueled optimism of the early 60s, then deftly channel that enthusiasm into teaching you about the how-we-got-here of it that always draws me The New Yorker magazine's read on any given moment. Brinkley will point out the blind spots without so dwelling there as to belittle those participating in history in real-time.
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