Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989
Outside Baseball
By Wilfrid Sheed
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam
Morrow, 304 pp., $21.95
The Progress of the Seasons: Forty Years of Baseball in Our Town
by George V. Higgins
Holt, 228 pp., $18.95
Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports
by Philip M. Hoose
Random House, 161 pp., $15.95
Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers
by John B. Holway
Meckler Books, 400 pp., $22.50
Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen
by Dick Allen, by Tim Whitaker
Ticknor and Fields, 189 pp., $17.95
The Story of My Life
by Hank Greenberg, edited and with an introduction by Ira Berkow
Times Books, 311 pp., $19.95
Out of the Blue
by Orel Hershiser, with Jerry B. Jenkins
Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 217 pp., $17.95
It could be a coincidence, but as each of our major wars winds down we seem to become more and more mesmerized by baseball, and the cold war so far has proved no exception. To a nervous system set on high, peace can be an awful anticlimax; suddenly a section seems to be missing from the papers and there's nothing special to wait for. This is it, the thing you've been praying for. So what do you do with it?
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