Sunday Books: coverage for April 3, 2011
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‘You Know Me Al,’ ‘The Natural’ and ‘Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?’ are in the starting lineup.
March 31, 2011
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Though the author delves deeply if slavishly into the sporting side of the Dodgers’ new manager, readers will come away knowing little of the man off the playing field.
April 3, 2011
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Neil Lanctot’s fine biography traces the Brooklyn Dodgers star’s rise through the Negro Leagues to the majors, depicting the realities of pro sports of his era.
April 3, 2011
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The sportswriter’s mini-biography focuses on the executive’s efforts to integrate the Dodgers and baseball by hiring Jackie Robinson.
April 3, 2011
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The odd baseball season of 1981 comes into focus with this gripping tale of the longest game in modern history and those caught in its wake.
April 3, 2011
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‘The Paper Garden,’ ‘My Father’s Fortune,’ ‘Shadows Bright as Glass.’
April 3, 2011
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An author once confused with his writer father returns stirringly — and revealingly — to the story of his youth in the memoir ‘Townie.’
April 3, 2011
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In this YA fiction, girls are forced into marriage and motherhood before their short lives end.
April 3, 2011
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Two former lovers, parted for almost 40 years, play out their second-chance fantasy in Rome. One of the novelist’s concerns is the shifting nature of identity.
April 3, 2011
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The first-time novelist, a detective with the New York Police Department, previously wrote the well-received 2004 memoir “Blue Blood.
April 3, 2011
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Jonah Keri records the remaking of the Tampa Bay Rays by Wall Streeters, a plan that met with success. Or is it too early to tell?
April 3, 2011
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