OT: Need some book suggestions

[HercDriver]

Take a look at Cardboard Gods, by Josh Wilker. If you're in your 40s, they are the cards you grew up with. Wilker weaves the cards into his life growing up in a very strange family environment. Despite the odd family, the cards (and the Red Sox) always gave him something to connect to. A great book...you won't go wrong with this one!

Take Care,
Geno

[FrankWakefield]

1- Mr. Lipset's Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards(about ball cards)
2- The Glory of Their Times (about turn of the century ball players)
3- the 4 cd set of The Glory of Their Times. (the interviews, not an audio book)
4- The Art of Fielding (a new novel, about much more than baseball)
5- The Celebrant (about the best baseball novel, Mathewson and the Giants)
6- The Ballplayers (an encyclopedia of sorts, more about deeds instead of numbers)
7- Historical Baseball Abstract
8- The Politics of Glory (for a true understanding of the Hall of Fame)
9- October, 1964 (about the end of the Yankee Dynasty, The Cardinals, social change)


A little bit of the stuff in Mint Condition isn't true. It is an interesting read.