Review: Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
Monday, April 14, 2008by Geoff Young
By Rob Neyer
Fireside: 331 pp., $16 paperback
What is baseball without its stories? The game has captured America's heart over the years not only through the calling of balls and strikes but also through the telling of tales.
As stories are passed along, sometimes the details get shifted. Other times, they were wrong from the beginning but nobody bothered to check.
Now Rob Neyer has checked for us. In Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, the author dissects more than 80 stories that have embedded themselves in the baseball canon.
As a devout follower of baseball, I'm struck by three elements of Neyer's work: how thorough his ...
