The Book Club

Mar 08, 2016, 12:00 PM

This week on the Pitch Talks Podcast we take a closer look at some of our favourite books on baseball. Featuring Jonah Keri (The Jonah Keri Podcast, his book ‘Up Up And Away’), Jesse Goldberg-Strassler (The Baseball Thesaurus) and John Cairney (Immaculate: The History Of Perfect Innings In Baseball) this trio were all recorded live at the Pitch Talks speakers series. Get out your reading glasses, pop in your earbuds and enjoy!

MUSIC CREDITS:

“Mining By Midnight”, “The Show Must Be Go”, “Carefree” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“You Gotta Teller” by Zeus, courtesy Arts & Crafts Inc.

Show Notes:

The Baseball Thesaurus by Jesse Goldberg-Strassler

http://www.amazon.ca/Baseball-Thesaurus-Jesse-Goldberg-Strassler-ebook/dp/B00JDII8EU/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120184&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Baseball+Thesaurus+by+Jesse+Goldberg-Strassler

Immaculate: The History Of Perfect Innings In Baseball by John Cairney

http://www.amazon.ca/Immaculate-History-Perfect-Innings-Baseball-ebook/dp/B0100S6KK0/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120026&sr=8-1&keywords=Immaculate%3A+The+History+Of+Perfect+Innings+In+Baseball

Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos by Jonah Keri

http://www.amazon.ca/Up-Away-Business-Ill-fated-Unforgettable/dp/0307361357/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120265&sr=8-1&keywords=Jonah+Keri

Big Data Baseball By Travis Sawchik

http://www.amazon.ca/Big-Data-Baseball-Miracles-20-Year/dp/1250063507/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120383&sr=8-1&keywords=big+Data+Baseball

The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach

http://www.amazon.ca/Art-Fielding-Novel-Chad-Harbach/dp/0316126675/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120479&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+fielding

Field Of Schemes by Neil deMause & Joanna Cagan

http://www.amazon.ca/Field-Schemes-Stadium-Swindle-Expanded/dp/0803260164/ref=sr1sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457120597&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=filed+of+schemes