The Savvy Girls of Summer: Every Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball, by Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney, is due out in October by Skyhorse Publishing.
According to the Web site, the book:
will educate fans with a passionate interest in the game by offering information and an historical perspective that will add to their enjoyment of today’s game, debates and issues. Undiscovered fans will get context; just what’s with these confounding player salaries, anyway? Everyone will get a refreshing and humorous, but sophisticated and reverent approach to the game. In most cases, the stories, writing and anecdotes from the game’s history will appear to the wide spectra of readers.
In addition to offering details, substantive anecdotes and scintillating gossip, the book will give tips on how to decipher some of the field antics, positioning, batting order and stats that will help you enjoy your next (or first) baseball outing.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer did a nice backgrounder on the authors and their project.
(Full disclosure: I served as a editorial “adviser” for the section on defense.)
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