Catching up

Lots of “Bits and Pieces”

With little beside the steroids business going on during this off-season, there’s lots of time to read and many bloggers are posting reviews, including.

• Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, Cobb: A Biography, and Is This a Great Game or What, all from Sawxblog.com
• Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders, from Bleacherbums.wordpress.com
• Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman, from KansasCity.com
• A promo for Glenn Stout’s The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball on the author’s Web site
• The Hardball Times 2008 Annual, from AmazinAvenue.com, a Mets blog
• The NY Times‘ Murray Chass writes about Fay Vincent’s forthcoming We Would Have Played For Nothing in his Jan. 27 column
• The Jewish Press included this review of Dana Brand’s Mets Fan
• Jonathan Mayo, who covers the minor leaguers for MLB.com (and has a book on Roger Clemens coming out this spring), weighs in on two books within his purview.