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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

The House that Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankee Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub

August 21, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Thanks to watching The Captain, I’ve been on a baseball kick lately. This past week, I read two really good books that deserved to be fleshed out here. Rickey I’ve always been fascinated with Rickey Henderson, the player. A combination of speed and power made him the best leadoff hitter and stolen base champ in history. I always admired how instead of acting too proud to end his career with some hokey narrative, he kept playing independent ball, hoping to be signed.  I know less about […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Sports Tagged With: Babe Ruth, Baseball, Bronx, Howard Bryant, John McGraw, New York baseball Giants, New York Yankees, oakland, Oakland As, Polo Grounds, Rickey, Rickey Henderson, Robert Weintraub, sports, The House that Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium

Jake's CBR14 Review No:148 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Sports · Tags: Babe Ruth, Baseball, Bronx, Howard Bryant, John McGraw, New York baseball Giants, New York Yankees, oakland, Oakland As, Polo Grounds, Rickey, Rickey Henderson, Robert Weintraub, sports, The House that Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium ·
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But who in hell was the joke really on?

October 30, 2016 by borisanne Leave a Comment

You know how the school-to-prison pipeline is a thing that people are finally talking about? Welp, back in 1992, this book about a gang of very young men trying to stay alive in Oakland was published, and I totally missed it, and I suspect almost everyone else did, too. It’s a really important topic, and thank goodness people are finally supporting discussion about it in a bigger way. I’m mostly thinking of Anna Deveare Smith’s current Off-Broadway show, but also about it being more prevalent […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR8, corrupt police, drugs, Fiction, food desert, gangs, jess mowry, Mowry, oakland, school to prison

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR8, corrupt police, drugs, Fiction, food desert, gangs, jess mowry, Mowry, oakland, school to prison ·
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