The following appeared in American Book Review, November/December 2001.
It has been estimated that more words have been written about baseball than all other sports combined. Such quantity obviously leads to widely-ranging quality. Cutting through the chafe – the juvenile literature, the statistical analyses – the persistent and curious fan can find those fine stalks of wheat.
Richard Peterson examines these pieces in Extra Innings, a thoughtful look at some of the more “important” books on the national pastime.
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