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Posted By: Julie

McFarland? I've only read "Old Hoss" published by them, and though it doesn't hold a candle to Thomas Mann's "Dr. Faustus," it's pretty good...

Think I'll get started on "Early Dreams: before i go to bed.

I have to come clean about something: I don't like most of the baseball books in this column, including the general favorites. I am normally a novel lover, but when it comes to baseball--I prefer the non-fiction. I just don't think most baseball novels compare to the best of non-baseball fiction, and--why settle for second best, just because it's about baseball?

It's the same with movies. On my list of "my 50 favoirite movies in no particular order" there's one baseball movie: Bang the Drum Slowly. de Niro in the '70s is pretty hard to beat.

I know there are others on this Forum who feel the same way, BUT THEY HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO KEEP THEIR TRAPS SHUT!