Living on the Black
Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember

The premise of following two pitchers (Tom Glavine - Metz, Mike Mussina - Yankees) through the 2007 baseball season is the most interesting thing about this book. The "Black" is the border around a seventeen inches wide home plate. A great pitcher can consistently get the ball over the black edges o......more

This book offers an insightful glimpse into the wife and the thinking of an athlete I particularly admired. Since the subjects of this book were about my age, it was interesting to see how they handled life revolving around a boy's game.......more

I must confess, I've become a John Feinstein fan. His ability to draw information out of athletes is simply breathtaking. From the clubhouse, to the mound, to the union, this is really a no holds barred look at what pitching in the Major Leagues is really like. Some of the stories of how the players......more

When you can't listen to baseball on the radio, the next best thing is reliving it through a well written book. Especially then the Yankees lose.......more

I originally bought this book hoping that it would provide insight into the most unique position in baseball - pitching. And it did have insight, plenty of it. The problem was that the insights were occasionally dull or common sense (so, I guess, not technically an insight), or the information was hi......more