Jason Elam co-wrote a fiction novel with someone that looked pretty interesting. Can't remember the name of it.
My favorite sports book is the fiction novel I wrote. That's right! It's called 4th Down and Life. One of these days I intend to get it online so people can read it. It's a solid 4 hour read.
bagobonez wrote:Jason Elam co-wrote a fiction novel with someone that looked pretty interesting. Can't remember the name of it.
My favorite sports book is the fiction novel I wrote. That's right! It's called 4th Down and Life. One of these days I intend to get it online so people can read it. It's a solid 4 hour read.
You guys rock. Just today, I received "Game of Shadows" and "Moneyball." Both should be great additions to my library. "Moneyball" is a book I've always considered picking up, especially since I'm from the Bay Area. Should be a great read. I'm going to start off with "Game of Shadows", having just finished reading "Juiced" by Jose Canseco. I feel I should educate myself just a bit more about the steroids scandal, seeing as how my friends love to talk about it so much. Hopefully, I'll gain a bit more insight about Bonds, BALCO and the steroid era in general.
Dr. Duran Duran wrote:You guys rock. Just today, I received "Game of Shadows" and "Moneyball." Both should be great additions to my library. "Moneyball" is a book I've always considered picking up, especially since I'm from the Bay Area. Should be a great read. I'm going to start off with "Game of Shadows", having just finished reading "Juiced" by Jose Canseco. I feel I should educate myself just a bit more about the steroids scandal, seeing as how my friends love to talk about it so much. Hopefully, I'll gain a bit more insight about Bonds, BALCO and the steroid era in general.
Dr. Duran Duran wrote:You guys rock. Just today, I received "Game of Shadows" and "Moneyball." Both should be great additions to my library. "Moneyball" is a book I've always considered picking up, especially since I'm from the Bay Area. Should be a great read. I'm going to start off with "Game of Shadows", having just finished reading "Juiced" by Jose Canseco. I feel I should educate myself just a bit more about the steroids scandal, seeing as how my friends love to talk about it so much. Hopefully, I'll gain a bit more insight about Bonds, BALCO and the steroid era in general.
Very cool! What'd you think of Juiced?
"Juiced" was perhaps the quickest read of my life. Read it in one day and I have to say, for all the crap the Jose Canseco gets for being a bit of an oddball, he certainly doesn't seem far off the mark when it comes to steroid use in baseball. Whether it's the players he's referring to in the book or the reasons for why a lot of the people he associated with juiced up, he's sounds pretty accurate considering how today's events are panning out. A lot of things that are transpiring right now, he talked about quite a bit back in 2005 when he wrote his memoirs and it certainly lends to his credibility on the matter.
He says he roided up to become a better ballplayer from a very early age (minor leagues) and he's very candid, saying that his entire career was thanks in part to steroid use. He admits that he had ability but couldn't have made the impression that he did without juicing up to a larger and more formidilble size. Though I'm not condoning steroids, in his defense, he seems to have a tremendous amount of knowledge concerning the proper was to use chemicals that can alter your body. It's really one of the better sports books I've read, but you do have to take some of the things he says with a grain of salt. "Juiced" inspired me to read "Game of Shadows", which I'm reading right now.
I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but Baseball Between the Numbers is awesome. I read some of it in like October and just got it back out from the library. It's by the Baseball Prospectus guys.
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