Dykstra’s book an ugly self-portrait that rings, mostly, true
Lenny Dykstra played baseball all-out and was nicknamed “Nails” because that’s how tough he was. The hell-bent effort, combined with
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Puig is ‘El Diablo’ in new book about the Dodgers
The Best Team Money Can Buy does not go on sale until July 14, and already it has created tsunami
Read moreBob Ryan: a Scribe everyone likes, deservedly so
Try as I might, I can’t be objective about Bob Ryan’s autobiography, Scribe: My Life in Sports, published by Bloomsbury.
Read moreHow Baseball Explains America – or used to
Hal Bodley’s How Baseball Explains America (Triumph Books) does indeed explain why baseball is the national pastime. Or is it
Read moreBlood Sport casts searing light on an unhealthy clinic
Biogenesis of America was the sort of pseudo health clinic that proliferates in South Florida, which for four centuries has
Read moreRose, with all his thorns, should be in the Hall
As a 21-year-old sports reporter in Atlanta, I was assigned to interview Pete Rose. Though excited about meeting a baseball
Read more‘Wooden’ as flesh and blood, not a coaching god
The more you know legendary coaches, the less you love them. You find that Lombardi neglected his wife and kids,
Read moreThe System takes a hard look at College Football
The coveted recruit, a future All-Pro football player, found nothing unconventional about his visits to
Read moreP.S.: Post Sandusky, the Nittany Lions held together
By Alan Truex Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football, is a hard-edged look at Penn State during
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