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The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith
31.08.2024
While I very rarely will buy hardcover books now, when I saw this one at a second-hand bookstore with Mr. Met on the cover, I was intrigued....
27.08.2024
Not being a big soccer fan, I was still interested in this book as I remembered how Columbia lost to the US in the 1994 World Cup and the su...
22.08.2024
As a fan of a team that was one of the original American League franchises, the book intrigued me and was available on Kindle Unlimited so I...
20.08.2024
Given all the news about bad behavior by parents in youth sports, I figured this book was going to be about that topic. While it touched on ...
12.08.2024
I am glad to be finding more sports-themed fiction stories that are high quality reads. This novel on Red Grange certainly qualifies as one ...
04.08.2024
Train or bus rides to baseball games are often spent by me reading a baseball book. On my rides to and from a recent Twins-Mets game, I read...
01.08.2024
This review will be a little different than others because this is about a series of books, not just one. After finding the book “Neverest” ...
30.07.2024
With the Olympics now in full swing, I always watch some of the boxing matches, both men and since 2012, the women as well. This is a book ...
22.07.2024
Having read a previous biography written by this author, I was eager to pick up an advance copy of this on Hakeem Olajuwon and it did not ...
11.07.2024
While I have never been much of a fan about the Los Angeles Dodgers, for some reason, every book I read about the team or one of their pla...
04.07.2024
With the surge in popularity this year of the WNBA thanks to talented rookies like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, it is only fitting to revi...
03.07.2024
This is another example of a book that I am glad that I chose the audio version instead of the print or electronic version. Guenther Steine...
01.07.2024
It is only fitting that on this last day of Pride Month that I share my review of an excellent memoir by Dale Scott, a very successful and o...
24.06.2024
I was interested in this book mainly because of the author and recognition of the name - but it turned out to be something more powerful. ...
20.06.2024
Just in time for the Paris Olympics, swimming champion Katie Ledecky has published her memoir. For someone who is only 27, it contained a l...
19.06.2024
This book was selected as me as part of a reading challenge - one person picks books for another person to read. This one was selected for ...
13.06.2024
This book’s synopsis intrigued me as it told a different side of the integration of baseball. It also has the feel of authenticity because t...
11.06.2024
Upon reading the synopsis of this book when I learned that there was going to be another book on the Penn State scandal more than a decade a...
06.06.2024
I was looking for a decent audio book for a recent road trip to a conference and this one on the 1939 fight between Joe Louis and "Two Ton" ...
01.06.2024
Baseball and New York City have been connected in many ways throughout the sport's history. This book is the best illustration of that conne...
30.05.2024
As one who likes reading about the front offices and business side of sports (especially baseball), I had to read this one when offered a re...
21.05.2024
Duke is one those teams in college basketball that one either loves or despises. While I fall closer to the latter category, I still enjoy r...
19.05.2024
A book on the history of sports media? Sounds like something that would be the subject of a scholarly work. If it was it sure didn’t read li...
14.05.2024
Like everyone else who follows sports, I was shocked and saddened to learn about Grant Wahl's death during the 2022 World Cup. When I saw a...
07.05.2024
I find fictional books on racing, no matter what type of racing, to be quite realistic in their descriptions of what drivers experience in t...
04.05.2024
Even though I read a lot about baseball in the early and mid 20th century, I had never heard of Waite "Schoolboy" Hoyt until obtaining this ...
27.04.2024
While I have been reading more fictional books lately, I can honestly say that this one grabbed me in a way that no other fictional book had...
23.04.2024
Having taken a break from sports reading for a short period, this was a very good choice to get back into sports - great book on the UCLA ba...
10.04.2024
When I saw the title of this book, I thought it was about the long-time coach of USC, Rod Dedeaux. When I saw it was about Miami coach Ron ...
09.04.2024
Sometimes a book on a famous player will allow the reader to learn much more about that player than what they learned in the media or throug...
03.04.2024
I never thought I could hear more good things about Vin Scully, nearly two years after his passing - but this book has many of them. I lear...
27.03.2024
While NASCAR is my favorite motorsport, I do like to watch an occasional Formula 1 race and I LOVE to read anything I can on it. This book ...
19.03.2024
This is an upcoming book by a well-known MSNBC reporter about the cultural influence of the Boston Red Sox and even though I knew that the R...
16.03.2024
Sometimes it's hard to find a book that is fair and complete when it is about a controversial person or event, but this book on Pete Rose fi...
14.03.2024
Train rides are always the best time for me to catch up on reading and on my recent travels to Washington, DC via train, that gave me that o...
11.03.2024
The timing for reading this book was very good as it was a fictional story based on the accounts of a previously reviewed book here on the G...
06.03.2024
This was a different type of book on mountain climbing. While it did have an expedition on one of the summits I often read about, Mt. Eve...
25.02.2024
With baseball spring training in full swing, getting back into reading baseball books. This is one I found on Kindle Unlimited about the big...
20.02.2024
While I have read other great books on Olympic athletes, on Black athletes during the era of blatant racial discrimination and other books o...
11.02.2024
Sometimes a book that I thought would be mostly about baseball (or another sport) may be more heavily into another topic. That was the case ...