Every year I try to read a book or two about baseball during the long off-season. It feels a little more productive than looking out the window and waiting for spring. Jason Turbow’s Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic is a non-fiction account of the great Oakland A’s teams of the early-to-mid-seventies. For those of you who aren’t baseball obsessives, the A’s won three consecutive World Series, in 1972, ’73, and ’74. They had some all-time greats and All-Stars all over the diamond. Despite their advantages in talent […]