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Review on Bluebird Banter Blog

Posted: May 19th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, bloggers | No Comments »

Michael Shapiro’s Bottom of the Ninth was released last week by Times Books/Henry Holt, and I barely put it down between the time I got my copy in the mail and the time I finished it.

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Praise from NY Post’s Mike Vaccaro

Posted: May 19th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, bloggers | No Comments »

Some books you know are going to be terrific before you even crack open the spine, given the subject and the author.

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Required Reading says the NY Post

Posted: May 18th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, bloggers | No Comments »

A little-remembered chapter of our national pastime, chronicling the fallout from the departure of the Dodgers and Giants for California after the 1957 season.

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From the Buffalo News

Posted: May 13th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, bloggers | No Comments »

I was always curious about the story of the Continental League, which Buffalo tried to use to gain admission to major league baseball about 50 years ago. This answered my questions nicely. Fine job


On Marty Noble’s MLBlogs Network

Posted: May 12th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Interesting book released today from Michael Shapiro, a baseball historian who has written about, among other things, the Brooklyn Dodgers in the past. “Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself” is about Rickey’s vision for how to “save” baseball, largely through the creation of a third major league, the Continental League.

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Daily Beast Recommends Bottom of the Ninth

Posted: May 12th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Did football become the national pastime because baseball got greedy?

Football may not have been as popular today had baseball followed the lead of legendary executive Branch Rickey and created a third major league.

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San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Baseball Books 2009

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Allan Barra writes: Shapiro (author of “The Last Good Season,” about the old Brooklyn Dodgers) is a terrific writer. His accounts of Branch Rickey’s struggle and eventual failure to create a third major league, the Continental, as well as the last Yankee season of baseball’s most successful manager, Casey Stengel (whose team lost the 1960 Series on Bill Mazeroski’s home run in the seventh game), makes for compelling reading.

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Review on Harvey Frommer’s BaseballGuru.com

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Shapiro, author of “The Last Good Season,” is in top form breaking new ground and providing new awarenesses of a little reported on chapter in American sports history – the aborted attempt by Branch Rickey to create the Continental League and Casey Stengel’s yen to remake the ways in which the national pastime was played. A good read.

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Review on AtHomePlate.com

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

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Review and Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

“Mr. Shapiro tells his tale with verve. . . . It’s an enjoyable ride.”

The Weekend Journal’s review by Richard Tofel

and an excerpt from the introduction


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