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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Sweet! Right after Murray the Qué? rolls out some “Left-handers Trevor Cahill…” research…he guzzles Golenbock.
What does that mean? It means that Goldenbock has written another baseball book, another book about the Yankees, and that’s not good. In fact, it’s downright dangerous. It’s dangerous because whenever he has written a baseball book, Golenbock has created errors for posterity.
Years from now some kid will take a Golenbock book out of his school library and think he is reading an accurate history. Golenbock and accuracy are an oxymoron.
...In another book, about the Dodgers, Golenbock wrote that Duke Snider was a right-handed hitter. Not that anyone else knew.
The mistakes in the Steinbrenner book are far from the first Golenbock has foisted on the sports-reading public. He has long been a serial killer of accuracy in baseball literature.
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Number 1 was the book that Martin "told to" Golenbock, though – I don't know why anyone would read or worry about the accuracy of that book anymore, given that Golenbock went on to write a full biography of Martin after the manager's death: Wild, High, and Tight. It's a good book, as I remember it, though I can't vouch for its fact-checking. Golenbock's book about the Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes – is outstanding. I also liked The Forever Boys. PG is basically a reporter, not a historian, and he is usually good at shaping what people say into a narrative. His Mantle novel, 7, is an exception: it's pretty dull, even though it was billed as a salacious collection of all the best gossip about Mantle.
Number 7 was probably the single worst sports book I've read from a reputable writer.
Sure seems like it.
That may have been the first adult baseball book that I read. I still have it around somewhere. They must've rereleased it years after 1975 because I'm guessing that I bought it around 1984 at a Caldor's.
I certainly hope so! Saves us from reading his theories of baseball.
And he has a lot.
Murray had Hal Badly quaking in his desert boots during a YES roundtable bit.
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