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Super Hot Stove League Reading
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by Harvey Frommer

A member of the Society for American Baseball Research
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Mix and match 150 celebrity voices like Ernie Banks, Dan Rather, Pedro Martinez, Vin Scully, George W. Bush, Jon Miller, Tom Brokaw, Monte Irvin, Robert Dole. Stir in 200 color and black and white vintage photographs from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Get a celebrated editor and baseball historian like Curt Smith to steer the project along.

The result is "What Baseball Means to Me" ($34.95, 288 pages) - a book that is entertaining, engrossing, evocative, one to savor especially its lines like: "In 1989 Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson for his 5,000th strikeout. The place went wild: Nolan graciously received the accolades but insisted the game go on. After all, baseball is a team sport." - George W. Bush. For those who have not had their fill of Yogi Berra and/or the 2002 World Series - two paperbacks - The Anaheim Angels by Ross Newhan (Hyperion, $14.95, 372 pages) and When You Come to A Fork in the Road, Take It by Yogi Berra (Hyperion, $11.00, 175 pages) are reads waiting for you. Newhan's book is required reading for Anaheim fans. Berra's banter is always the same - entertaining, if you are into that sort of stuff.

University Presses are publishing some very focused baseball books. A few of the more interesting ones include: A Summer Up North by Jerry Poling (University of Wisconsin Press, $19.95, 187 pages, paperback) - a look at the first minor league season of 18-year-old Hank Aaron and his time with the Eau Claire Bears. From the University of Massachusetts publishing arm comes Epic Season by David Kaiser ($19.95, 281 pages, paperback). The work is a day-by-day history of the 1948 baseball season with special focus on the incredibly exciting pennant race. Baseball's Natural by John Theodore (Southern Illinois University Press, 136 pages, hardcover) is a bio of Eddie Waitkus, the Cubs and Phillies first baseman in the mid 20th century who inspired the character of Roy Hobbs in Bernard Malamud's The Natural.

From McFarland (800 253 2187), one of the leading publishers of baseball books, comes Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian ($28.50, 219 pages, softcover). The book tells an in depth story of the life a Penobscot Indian from Maine, the first of his race to play in the major leagues.

ť Harvey Frommer is the author of 32 sports books, including "The New York Yankee Encyclopedia, "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball,"and "Growing Up Baseball" with Frederic J. Frommer. His "A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team" was published by Berkley Putnam in October 2002.

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