Reviews for Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories Series)

The average rating for Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories Series) based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-18 00:00:00 Clay Diehl An enjoyable collection of short stories about baseball from a variety of authors. I especially liked "Horseshoes" by Ring Lardner, where the Philadelphia "Ath-a-letics" and the New York Giants played in the "World Serious"; also "The Crambury Tiger" by Arthur Baer which included this great line: "Nippers had the general appearance of an accident looking for a lawyer and he had a profile you could saw lumber with."

Review # 2 was written on 2018-06-23 00:00:00 Brian Gonsalves A lot of stories that I skimmed or skipped entirely. I got really tired of the bulk of the women in these stories being the Delilah--you know, having power over a baseball player's skill, either ruining it (love makes you incapable of playing baseball!) or escalating it (he's so happy in love, he can't be stopped!). Even then, there aren't a lot of women in this, and just the barest acknowledgement that women & girls are fans, too--or *gasp* can play ball! I would have given a lot to have read a single goddamned story about the Girls Professional Baseball League. That being said, the story I found the most offensive was the literary effort that had the protagonist *choosing* to get gangrene in his leg and having it amputated, because it...dragged his teenaged son out of his angry Goth phase? FFS. The stories I liked the best: The Pitcher & the Plutocrat by P. G. Wodehouse and A Family Game by Brendan DuBois.