santo league little season

books:

4 reviews
Jim Brosnan

Dell, 1963

The Best Baseball Book
Pennant Race and its companion book, The Long Season, are the best baseball books ever written. I enjoyed Ball Four, written ten yeras after The Long Season, but it is a pale imitation. Brosnan's style and perspective are unique; his blend of candor and cynicisn unmatched; his writing subtleties are brilliant. I have read hundreds of baseball books, and these two, which I basically consider ...

Little League To Big League
Jim Brosnan

Random House, 1968

Stories of Little Leagueres who have become star performers in five major sports.

The Long Season (A Dell book)

8 reviews
Jim Brosnan

Dell Pub, 1961

Brosnan's book- Benign Ball Four Before Ball Four
I really enjoyed this book, which is a milder, tamer, less controversial book written 10 years before Jim Bouton's Ball Four. Both books are written by good, but not great relief pitchers named Jim. Both are written in diary form while the pitchers toil for less than stellar teams. Funny, and at times irreverent, Brosnan's book is worth the time to read! Teaser: I love the nickname Brosnan's wife ...

PENNANT RACE
JIM BROSNAN

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK, 1962

Critics of major league baseball claim it is a dull game. "Nothering ever happens," they say. Major league ballplayers claim that theirs is a tough, challenging profession. The fan's-eye view is limited....(a brief excerpt from this book appeared in Sports Illustrated.)

Ron Santo, 3B
Jim. Brosnan

Putnam Pub Group (L), 1974

A biography of Ron Santo who has earned a living at the great American pastime as third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox.