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The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

14.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Pinch Hitting”

This is the second of the two books I finished over a rainy week - a very good baseball novel that was a Casey Award finalist. Here is my re...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

13.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Dark Side of the Diamond"

While the weather was better on Mother's Day (belated Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers or those who perform the duties of mothers) ther...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

06.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "After Jackie"

It's not often that I complete books on two consecutive days, but with rainy weather in my area and re-discovering audio books, it's possibl...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

05.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Out of the Darkness"

This book was one that while I received it before its publication before its 2024 publication date, I just never got around to reading it as...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

28.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Summit"

Sticking with the mountain climbing theme, this is the second book that I have read or listened to about this deadly day on K2. This time t...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

26.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Enough”

Having heard of this author because of her accomplishments on Mount Everest, I picked up this book hoping to learn more about Melissa Arnot ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

21.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Rory Land”

Remembering that this book had recently been sent by the publisher to my NetGalley list, I immediately opened it after Rory McIlroy finall...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

19.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Damn Near Perfect Game”

Back to baseball here, I found the audio version of this gem and decided to play it during some dead times during the workday. Here is my ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

14.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Black Widow"

Hard to believe that after nearly 12 years of writing book reviews, this one is the first one I have done on pool or billiards. It was a goo...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

11.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Why So Serious?"

My run of reading baseball books was temporarily interrupted by a notice from my local library that my hold for this book was ready. Having...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

07.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Greatest Summer in Baseball History”

Continuing with my baseball theme to start the new season, this was an audiobook I started on the bus trip back from the Mets home opener an...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

06.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "One More for the White Rat"

Continuing my baseball theme for the start of the 2025 season, this was a very quick and enjoyable read about the 1987 St. Louis Cardinals. ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

01.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "1978"

Continuing with the posting of baseball book reviews to start the 2025 season, this was an enjoyable read about the 1978 season. It was muc...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

30.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Diamond Duels”

It’s the start of the 2025 baseball season and as is the case every year, I read a few baseball books to get in the swing of baseball. Here’...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

26.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Real Hoosiers"

Hoosiers is certainly considered to be one of the best basketball movies ever made. This book is not about the movie, nor about Milan High,...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

22.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Last Manager"

This is one of the books I completed cover to cover on my recent trip to a conference in Washington, DC. One reason I prefer train travel w...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

20.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Catching up - review of "A Mic for All Seasons"

Having been away for a few days in Washington, DC, I haven't had the opportunity to post reviews, but did get some quality reading in. This...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

10.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Roll With It”

Taking advantage of some significant downtime that allows for more reading, I finished this book within 24 hours of starting it. It was just...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

09.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Don Drysdale: Up and In”

With spring training in full swing, it’s time to start reading the new baseball books coming out this year. This one that was published in F...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

05.03.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review - A.J. Foyt Volume 1

Lately, there have been several interesting books on auto racing, and this is certainly one of them. A.J. Foyt has had a long and successfu...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

26.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Short review - "Riding With the Rocketmen"

While both reading this book as part of a challenge and trying to clean out some books previously sent to me, I found this one. Having enjo...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Killing the Image"

Admittedly, I did not follow Andre Ward very closely once he turned professional although I did see his bouts in the 2004 Olympics. So, whe...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

19.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Night the Referee Hit Back"

As one who loves to read books on boxing but really isn't enthusiastic about the product the sport puts out today, this book was right up my...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

19.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Lion of the League”

Books about umpires can be just as good as those about baseball players or managers. This book is one example of this. Winner of the 2025 SA...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

19.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Rise of Major League Soccer"

Admittedly, I don't watch a lot of soccer - MLS or otherwise, save for the World Cup. It's mainly because while I love to see matches in pe...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

19.02.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Race and Resistance in Boston"

This was a book that was outside of my usual comfort zone, and it was well worth the time to read. It took careful reading to fully grasp t...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Life in Two Worlds"

Knowing I would be in my car for a few hours when I drove to New Hampshire, I decided to download a book for the trip. This one has been on...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

28.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger”

It wasn’t easy to convince me to review a book that starts off with a play from a very painful day for us Twins fans - game 7 of the 1965 ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

21.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "A Giant among Giants"

As we near the end of January, it's time to start thinking about baseball - soon we will hear the four magical words every fan loves to hear...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

18.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Barbara Ann Scott"

I always will take a look at least the synopsis of a book on an athlete I never heard of before. That was the case with this one on figure ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

12.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Chasing the Great Gatsby”

No, the title of this book does not mean this will be a literary review. It’s not often a book on boxing, or any sport for that matter, will...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

09.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Once More Around the Park"

One of my favorite authors of all time is Roger Angell. No matter what he wrote about baseball, it was always a treat to read it - and re-r...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

04.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: First review of 2025 - "The White Ladder"

Starting off 2025 with a book I read over the holiday break on one of my favorite topics - mountaineering. This was a look at some of the e...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

01.01.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Last review of 2024 - "The Most Incredible Boxing Stories Ever Told"

As mentioned in my last post, I am working on a resolution to utilize my Kindle Unlimited more often to find books - this was an interesting...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Rivals on the Track”.

I’m getting an early start on one of my New Years resolutions - to use my Kindle Unlimited account more frequently and read more of the book...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

28.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Mike Donlin"

As we wrap up 2024, there were a couple more books I wanted to get to before starting a new TBR list for 2025 and this one was on that list....

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Happy Holidays!

For this holiday season, I will leave you this take on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” courtesy of Baseball-isms. On the twelfth day of Chr...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

16.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “All the Way”

It’s not often that I’ll be able to post reviews on consecutive days, but after finishing Magic in the Air, I started this one and not onl...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

15.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Magic In the Air”

What basketball fan doesn’t get excited when a player on their favorite team goes in for a high flying dunk? This is a very good book on th...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

09.12.2024

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Baseball: The Movie”

With the nominations for the 2024 Casey Award for the best baseball book of the year, I have decided to give each one of them (or as many ...

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The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith - Books & Literature

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Pinch Hitting”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Dark Side of the Diamond"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "After Jackie"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Out of the Darkness"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Summit"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Enough”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Rory Land”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Damn Near Perfect Game”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Black Widow"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Why So Serious?"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Greatest Summer in Baseball History”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "One More for the White Rat"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "1978"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Diamond Duels”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Real Hoosiers"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Last Manager"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Catching up - review of "A Mic for All Seasons"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Roll With It”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Don Drysdale: Up and In”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review - A.J. Foyt Volume 1

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Short review - "Riding With the Rocketmen"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Killing the Image"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Night the Referee Hit Back"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Lion of the League”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Rise of Major League Soccer"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Race and Resistance in Boston"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Life in Two Worlds"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "A Giant among Giants"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Barbara Ann Scott"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Chasing the Great Gatsby”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Once More Around the Park"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: First review of 2025 - "The White Ladder"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Last review of 2024 - "The Most Incredible Boxing Stories Ever Told"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Rivals on the Track”.

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Mike Donlin"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Happy Holidays!

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “All the Way”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Magic In the Air”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Baseball: The Movie”

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