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	• Glove Stories : The Collected Baseball Writings of Dave Kindred Dave Kindred Sporting News, 2002 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Given those interests, you can imagine that I immensely enjoyed this book. Glove Stories proved to me again that there is no substitute for great stories beautifully and subtly told.

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Solid Writing from a Solid Writer

This top writer for the Sporting News captures the essence of baseball with over 60 of his best writings. In his humane, moving style, Kindred covers a host of personalities and topics, from little leaguers to baseball stars, college coaches to Negro Leaguers. I particularly liked his columns on kids playing for fun, Buck Ewing, Mark McGwire, announcer Harry Caray, Pee Wee Reese, and the tense 1991 World Series (Twins-Braves). Of course, their are other favorites too numerous to mention here, and not a bad one in the bunch. It was also nice that Kindred sees through major league baseball's annual nonsense about losing money. Like most good writers, Kindred possesses skill, humanity, and the right dose of skepticism. These columns illuminate the game so many of us love, make us smile, mourn, and chuckle, and are always worth a look.

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Great Baseball Stories to Be Savored

I was a thirty year subscriber to The Sporting News (1959-1989), but dropped out when they branched out into sports other than baseball so I was not familiar with Dave Kindred. I do, however, enjoy books of sportswriters' columns of their best stories. I took a chance on Dave Kindred since the subject was baseball and was pleasantly surprised. He covers a wide variety of subjects with humor and nostalgia sure to satisfy anyone interested in baseball writing. If you consider yourself a baseball fan at all this is a book that deserves a permanent place in your library amongst the volumes of Jim Murray, Red Smith, Jerry Holtzman, Tom Boswell, Roger Angell, and Roger Kahn to name a few. Be good to yourself! Buy the book!

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I cried because as I read the promise you made to your late father, it reminded me of the bond my father and I share.

My father is a baseball umpire. American Legion, high school, local college, whatever. He's there to call the games. And no matter what kind of day he was having, no matter what his mood, he always had time for my
queries of baseball, without exception. Baseball has always been there for my dad and I, but it wasn't until I read your story that it dawned on me just how powerful that bond is.

I'm here in Rochester, NY, with a foot of snow on the ground but after I read "Mom", I looked out my window and did not see snow. I saw green grass, I saw the dust of my father sweeping clean home plate and I heard him complete baseball-diamond air with a called third strike. "Sell the call,
Bob. Sell it." That's the baseball advice he gave me and it's the advice I apply to all walks of my life.

I am a young sports journalist myself. Your writing has struck me as the type by which to be educated and influenced. So a hearty thanks to you, Mr. Kindred. For not
only have you given me a standard to shoot for as a writer, you have reminded me of exactly why this child's game can bring a grown man to tears.

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The Sporting News' award-winning columnist Dave Kindred compiles his favorite columns on baseball from his 10-year career at the magazine

Glove Stories is a collection from the heart and mind of The Sporting News's columnist Dave Kindred. It's his thoughts on the game of baseball in the 10 years he's written for The Sporting News. From the World Series to the non-World Series; from Opening Days to All-Star Games. From taking his mom to a ballgame, to just hanging with Tony Gwynn and Stan Musial.

"Kindred's youthful passion for the game has ripened into a mature appreciation of its history and craftsmanship. These essays, his love letters to the game, are delightful."
--George Will, political analyst and baseball fan

"Dave Kindred loves baseball and Dave Kindred knows baseball. His book Glove Stories is as good as it gets for a baseball fan. If you care about the game, you'll love this book. It's a winner."
--Skip Caray, Atlanta Braves announcer

"Dave Kindred has always had a wonderful way with words. Now, with Glove Stories, he also has a way with our hearts. What a glorious love story is Kindred and baseball."
--Frank Deford, author

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