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Living on the Black



Last night, I finished reading Living on the Black, John Feinstein's 500 page chronicle of the 2007 season focused on the performances of Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine. The title, of course, comes from way both cerebral pitchers have to pitch in order to get major league hitters out.

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Quick Book Club Question

Are we going to keep reading? When we started out the idea was to get us through the offseason. I've enjoyed reading the books, but I don't have a strong opinion either way, so it's really up to you guys.

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PA Book Club

Summer of '49 might have jumped to the top of my favorite non-fiction books.

Halberstam packs every chapter with anecdotes and stories. He published the book in 1990- 41 years after these teams played. He was able to do a ton of interviews; also, the newspaper press was at its peak, so he had a ton of sources. Is that the main asset that seperates '49 from Ty and Babe?

Discuss favorite passages, interesting revelations, and anything else about the book here. I'm on the way out the door to a wedding, so I'll check back with my contributions tonight.

 

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