Critical Essay by Virginia Kirkus' Service
More than any other sport, baseball has fascinated Americans since possibly the first formal game was played on the Elysian Fields of New York back i...
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Critical Essay by Michael J. Bandler
The subject of veteran journalist-sports essayist Roger Kahn's first novel ["But Not to Keep"] is the interrelationship between two evolving ...
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Critical Essay by Wes Lukowsky
[In Kahn's second novel, The Seventh Game,] he once again turns to baseball. John Longboat, a 41-year-old pitcher, prepares himself for the seventh game of the W...
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Critical Essay by Daniel Okrent
"The Seventh Game" is a novel about an aging pitcher on the mound for the last game of a world series (probably the last game of his career), and of the ...
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Critical Essay by Irving T. Marsh
["Inside Big League Baseball"] is one of the simplest and clearest descriptions of the fascinations of big-time baseball that has come across this desk...
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
There are many ways to waste one's youth; I wasted mine rooting for the Yankees and the Republicans. They were my teams, not because they won but because th...
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Critical Essay by Donald Hall
Baseball is too often confused with the Major Leagues, or even with Joe Garagiola and the Game of the Week. But baseball is also college and Little League, high school a...
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Critical Essay by Howard Means
"Baseball's inherent rhythm, minutes and minutes of passivity erupting into seconds of frenzied action, matches an attribute of the American character,&#x...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Kahn's sentimentality works well enough in his boys-of-summer-ish nonfiction—but here, in his whiny first novel [But Not to Keep], it glops over everyth...
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A lot of writers have asked Willie Mays over the years if he would cooperate with them on a book, and almost every time, the baseball legend has refused their advances. About two weeks ago, however...
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Clem Labine, a relief pitcher who threw two of baseball's most significant shutouts in his role as a part-time starter and pitched for two Dodgers World Series championship teams in the 1950s, died...
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Clem Labine, a relief pitcher who threw two of baseball's most significant shutouts in his role as a part-time starter and pitched for two Dodgers World Series championship teams in the 1950s, died...
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The expectations for Duke Snider were high, but none were higher than the ones he placed on himself. After one season in minor league baseball, Snider's combination of speed, power and grace led th...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Kirkus' Service
New Willie Mays Biography Comes With Strings Attached
