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10 reviews
Danny Peary

Simon & Schuster (Paper), 1986

ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILM BOOKS
When you see multiple rave 5 star reviews for a book that has been out-of-print for ten years you know something is up. I picked this book up in the bargain bin section of a Waldenbooks many years ago and it eventually became the MOST tattered and abused film book in my library. Literally, pages were missing from the 'checklist' in the back, and the book had peeled away into three separate ...

Cult Movies

7 reviews
Danny Peary

Delta, 1981

For my money, the best series of books for the film fan!
Danny Peary, a film fanatic himself, in these series of three books (I'm only dealing with the first in this review) gleefully, critically and passionately celebrates what makes film going the sheer pleasure that it is. In a series of well written, insightful, often humourous and always celebratory essays, Peary explores many classic, weird and wonderful films that raise the pulses of fans. Many ...

Alternate Oscars

9 reviews
Danny Peary

Delta, 1993

Brilliant Idea with Great Alternate Suggestions
Have you ever watched an older movie and enjoyed it so much that you looked it up to see how many Oscars it won? How many times did you come away wondering why it wasn't even nominated for a single one? What makes a great movie great, what makes an over-rated movie over-rated, and what movies over the years have been most egregiously overlooked? "Alternate Oscars" is a book that explores these ...

Great Golf: 150 Years of Essential Instruction from the Best Players, Teachers, and Writers of All Time

2 reviews

"Stewart, Tabori and Chang", 2005

A Treasure of a Golf Book
I bought "Great Golf" because I wanted an instruction book that gave me the tips I was looking for but also kept me immersed in the words and images of the heros I grew up admiring: Snead, Hogan, Player, and my favorite: Dr. Cary Middlecoff. Little did I know my wife would also treasure this book. She took up golf two years ago, took lessons, and now is at a level where she can check the finer ...

Cult Movie Stars

3 reviews
Danny Peary

Simon & Schuster Books, 1991

One of my favorite film critics
Though I know some people dislike him as much as others love him, I have to say that, for myself personally, no film historian better captures the love and exhiliration that can be felt from watching a truly wonderful movie. In his writings, Danny Peary has always proven himself to be not only a student of films but also a fan. And yes, there is a huge difference! Peary came to prominence with ...

Raising a Team Player: Teaching Kids Lasting Values on the Field, on the Court and on the Bench

10 reviews
Harry Sheehy, Danny Peary

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2002

A pleasure to read
Harry Sheehy really nails so many critical ideas in this book. The most important for me was the concept that values are taught through sports, just as much as skills. We need to carefully evaluate what we are teaching and how we are teaching it. Both parents and coaches will benefit from reading this book and thinking about the key ideas it contains. It made me think. I especially enjoyed the ...

We Played the Game: Memories of Baseball's Greatest Era

5 reviews
Danny Peary

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2002

Cure for the winter blues
This is the perfect baseball book for all seasons, but especially now with the World Series over, and spring training still months away. It also seems appropriate to me that this book is set during one of the "Golden Ages" of baseball between 1947 and 1964, a time when the only stats that mattered reflected exploits on the field, rather than tallies of bank accounts off the diamond, as we have ...

1,001 Reasons to Love Baseball

1 review
Danny Peary, 2004

A Baseball Book Like No Other
On P. 205 of 1001 Reasons To Love Baseball, Danny Peary and MaryTiegreen list 17 classic books which have become iconic reverences to baseball. They could have included one more - their own magical, wondrous, can't put it down adoration of the game. 1001 Reasons to Love Baseball is different from any other baseball book I've ever seen. I found myself not just reading it but carrying it ...

We Played the Game: 65 Players Remember Baseball's Greatest Era, 1947-1964

3 reviews

Hyperion Books, 1994

A Truly Great History!
Danny Peary has compiled an oral history that is simply as good an effort as has been done to date. The sixty-five players interviewed range from a few stars like Brooks Robinson, Del Ennis, Lew Burdette and Don Newcombe to solid career players such as Hank Sauer, Andy Seminick, Eddie Joost and Gene Woodling to guys just trying to hang on like Coot Veal, Ed Bouchee, Al Kozar and Bob Cain. ...

Cult Movies 3: 50 More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird and the Wonderful

1 review
Danny Peary

Fireside, 1988

Perry is the best at
Danny Perry's obvious love of film is infectious. His knowledge lost and beloved classics of the odd and forgotten will make you run out to th local video store in search of gem after gem. Even when you disagree with him, Perry supports his viewpoint in a fun, quickwitted style. My only complaint is that as 20 years has gone by since its intial publication where is CULT MOVIES 4?

Cult Baseball Players: The Greats, the Flakes, the Weird and the Wonderful

1 review
Danny Peary

Fireside, 1990

A Two-base Hit
Anyone wanting to wax nostalgic about baseball's past, particularly the 1940's, 50's and 60's, should pick up Peary's book. Anyone looking for a compendium of baseball's cult figures, particularly the weird or offbeat, may be disappointed. Each player gets a short revealing chapter penned by a different author. Like any compilation, the quality varies from chapter to chapter, from sports-column ...

The Perfect Season: Why 1998 Was Baseball's Greatest Year

13 reviews
Tim Mccarver, Danny Peary

Villard, 1999

The Perfect Season
I loved this book. This book will show you the inner meaning of the perfect game. Baseball is the perfect game and this book will show you stories, why the game of baseball is a great game. The perfect game will show you things about the game that you never thought of before about baseball. This book is a great book, you really have to be into baseball in order to be really into this book. ...

Tim Mccarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can ...

31 reviews
Tim McCarver, Danny Peary, 2008

Must read for the hard core fan
If you love the ins and out of baseball and want to know more about the tactics and stratigies...this is your book. You should have a good grasp of baseball before reading this however. I look at baseball different now.....I appreciate the nuances more..... Cav

Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends

1 review
Danny Peary

Workman Pub Co, 1978

A Hollywood Cavalcade
This is a movie lovers book that should have some appeal to connosieurs. From Mary Pickford to the Three Stooges to Marlon Brando to Richard Dreyfuss, the selection is large, with names familiar to every movie-goer, including some not so familiar. The authors are also a diverse lot (usually directors or film writers), having either a personal or professional familiarity with their subject. This ...

Baseball Forever: Reflections on Sixty Years in the Game

7 reviews
Ralph Kiner, Danny Peary

Triumph Books, 2004

"Baseball is, to me, a carbon copy of life": A Great Player's Reflections on Baseball
Ralph Kiner's _Baseball Forever_, written with Dany Peary, offers readers a chance to enjoy the gentlemanly voice of Ralph Kiner, a Hall of Fame outfielder and mainstay of Mets television broadcasts since 1962. Filled with amusing anecdotes and shrewd observations, Kiner reflects on his life in baseball from the post-World War II era to the present. His story is told with candor, humor, and ...

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