Late last year my laptop died and I was forced to use my phone for online browsing and email. It's a G1 so that's what it was made for but it made my posting here somewhat complicated. Android does have a blogger app but it was too clumsy to deal with so I posted whenever and wherever I got a chance (one time, I kid you not, I wrote a post in my parents basement). Around this time I received an email from Chris Jaffe of The Hardball Times who was promoting his book Evaluating Baseball's Managers, 1876-2008. Chris attached the sections for former Royals managers Jack McKeon and Whitey Herzog which I promised to download and read when I bought a new laptop.....then proceeded to forget all about it.
That is until I recently stumbled upon James Bailey's review of the book for Baseball America. (By the way you should check out Bailey's site Hardball Cooperative, there are some seriously talented writers there.) Luckily I had saved his email and so I promptly read what he sent me three months ago. And I enjoyed it, even though the Royals are only slightly mentioned. This is a worthwhile read and something I think all baseball fans will enjoy. Bailey gives a pretty thorough review so I recommend checking that out if a book about managers interests you. And if it doesn't I'm sure there is another book about the 1975 Cincinnati Reds coming any day now.
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Daniel Shoptaw, Cardinals blogger and the Grand Master of the BBA, recently emailed me and a few other Royals bloggers some few questions for his Playing Pepper series. You can check it out here. We all pretty much think alike which didn't really surprise me, Royals bloggers all seem to be on the same page which is kind of cool.
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