A Baseball Companion
by Roger Angell
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports and Nonfiction.
Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the “most significant half decade in the history of the game.” The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Nolan Ryan, among others. It also presented one of the best World Series of all time (1975), including still the greatest W...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports and Nonfiction.
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Eric Alper
“Get back into baseball with the best books on the sport: The Game, Jon Pessah Ball Four, Jim Bouton Veeck as in Wreck, Bill Veeck The Wrong Stuff, Bill Lee The Bronx Zoo, Sparky Lyle The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn Five Seasons, Roger Angell Moneyball, Michael Lewis”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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