It’s the holidays, which means shopping and also accepting that there may be no real baseball news for awhile given the owners’ “defensive lockout.” With that in mind, I wanted to make a book recommendation. (If the lockout continues, I’ll probably be making more of them. Reading will be a nice way to spend the baseball-less time because one can only watch Ken Burns’ Baseball so many times.)
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University of Nebraska Press, 280 pages
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The idea is terrific: It’s the summer of 2015.