Billy Martin
Baseball's Flawed Genius
by Bill Pennington
Recommended by Keith Rabois and Peter King
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Sports, and Nonfiction.
A New York Times bestseller “Enormously entertaining . . . Explores the question of whether a baseball lifer can actually be a tragic figure in the classic sense—a man destroyed by the very qualities that made him great." — Wall Street Journal “Bill Pennington gives longoverdue flesh to the caricature . . . Pennington savors the dirtkicking spect...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Sports, and Nonfiction.
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Peter King
“2 books I love: Without You, There Is No Us, by Suki Kim. Billy Martin: Baseball?s Flawed Genius, by Bill Pennington. | If you enjoy baseball, this is the book to read:”
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