It’s filled with stories and baseball poetry and is one of the only pieces of mail that I consistently look forward to getting. The issue comes out each quarter and is best described as a labor of love for baseball fans. Speaking of Spitball magazine, if you haven’t heard of it or read it, you need to go to their website and get out your checkbook and subscribe. Posnanski won the 2021 award with his entry, The Baseball 100. Our Team was a finalist for the 2021 Casey Award, given out each year to the year’s best baseball book by a panel selected by Spitball magazine. Recently, I read Luke Epplin’s excellent book “ Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball”. Often these books make their way to Hollywood and become hit movies, like Field of Dreams. More recently, former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski has scored with The Soul of Baseball and Why We Love Baseball. Another all-time favorite of mine is the John Updike essay called Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Some are all-time classics like The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn and The Glory of their Times by Lawrence Ritter. Baseball is one sport that has provided a plethora of excellent books.
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