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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘The Paper Garden,’ ‘My Father’s Fortune,’ ‘Shadows Bright as Glass.’
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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.’
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In this YA fiction, girls are forced into marriage and motherhood before their short lives end.
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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.
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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.
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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?
