The Vine: February 15, 2008
Dear Sars:
Maybe you can help me find a baseball book. I saw it a couple weeks ago in Barnes & Noble. It was a book about baseball, but specifically about the hidden rules or etiquette that the players use on each other. Like why a player might bean another player in the back on purpose during the course of the game. It’s a recent book but I have no idea the name or who wrote it, or if its even been out longer than five years. I was busy at the time and when I
went back it was gone. Help!
L
Dear L,
I hope the readers know what you’re talking about, because that book sounds rad and I’d like to read it myself. So, in honor of the arrival of pitchers and catchers, and a week spent mulling the ups and downs of Roger Clemens’s buttcheek…readers? Any idea what this book is?
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Could it be The Code? I haven’t read it either, but now I’m interested.
It looks like The Code:Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and It’s Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct , by Ross Bernstein. It’s a March release, but it’s apparently already in strores.
And, yeah, it looks teh awes.
It’s probably the one mentioned above, but here’s another possibility:
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Baseballs-Secret-Unwritten-Rules/dp/1594040516
Dad’s birthday present… Done.
Hey thanks everybody for the ideas – I’m sure its the first one suggested by Colleen. Awesome – thanks again!
oooo I’m thinking about 2 copies, one for the office and one for my dad!
I agree, it looks great, but you might want to check out reader reviews for a similar book that Ross Bernstein did about hockey–
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Unwritten-Rules-Fighting-Retaliation
/dp/1572437561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&
qid=1203535793&sr=1-1