Tales from the Dugout

Great book of true baseball stories.......more

I enjoyed these anecdotes particularly because so many of such stories seem to be frozen in the 50s or 60s. By contrast, these included many players I remember from "my" era of the late 80s and early 90s.......more

While the baseball stories in this collection are good, they are not the greatest. I have been reading fiction and fact baseball books all my life and as a consequence have read stories about characters such as Dizzy Dean, Babe Herman, the entire Gas House Gang, Bill Veeck, and Satchel Paige. There......more

I definitely would not call these "the greatest true baseball stories ever told" -- more like "the most stories I could get from whomever I came in contact with." The book is dated, no doubt -- who would've thought that nobody in 2017 was anxious to hear a story from Delino DeShields? Still, the sto......more

There are a couple of interesting (and all very short) stories, and then a lot of filler. It feels like the author didn't have enough to write a book and started throwing in anything he could find, including just mentioning that Seinfeld has had plot lines that involve the Yankees. I wasn't particul......more