Check It Out!

It's Opening Day, baseball fans!  It's looking like it might be a washout for a lot of games, though, thanks to the soggy weather (the Red Sox, for one, have already postponed tonight's game to tomorrow afternoon).  While you're waiting for your favorite teams to play, why not check out some new books about the great American pasttime?

There have been a number of new baseball biographies released lately.   Perhaps the one with the biggest buzz was Joe Torre's The Yankee Years, in which the former manager reflects on what it took for the Yankees of the 1990s to regain the glory of years past.   And speaking of the Yankees' glory years, check out Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra and Yankee for Life: My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes by Bobby Murcer.  Of course, we can't leave out Connecticut's other favorite team - so why not try Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within by Mike Lowell of the Red Sox.

New stadiums are on everyone's mind, what with the Yankees moving into their new park this year, not to mention the perennial debate about whether the Sox should build a larger stadium.  Revisit some great moments from the Bronx in Memories of Yankee Stadium by Scott Pitoniak, or read about the Green Monster in Faithful to Fenway: believing in Boston, baseball, and America's most beloved ballpark by Michael Ian Borer.

And for a different take on the game, view the plays from behind the mask in As They See 'Em: a fan's travels in the land of umpires by Bruce Weber.  The players and the managers get all the attention, and for good reason, but where would the game be without the umpires?

This is just a small sampling of what we have available -- check out our baseball books in the stacks, under call number 796.357.