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This Time Let’s Not Eat the Bones

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 2:29 AMNo Comment

I found it for reasonably cheap (note: not cheap, just reasonably so given the difficulty in tracking it down) and read it in what seemed like no time; he’s such a natural, easy writer, and he’s able to bring a certain richness to his discussions of the game without going overboard into the maudlin “poetry of America” crap that trips up so many baseball writers. Well worth the ducats. (2/7/05)

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