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Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

bmfc1 Oct 15 2010 07:34 AM

I searched at Amazon for baseball books to be released next season. Here are three that I don't think we'll be buying: Jeter: http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Journey-D ... 00&sr=1-24 Victorino: http://www.amazon.com/Shane-Victorino-H ... 22&sr=1-38 LaRussa: http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Russa-Missio ... 95&sr=1-77

HahnSolo Oct 15 2010 07:41 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter Ian O'Connor (Author) Oh, mother of God. And how about this flap copy: Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country squabble over the right to wear his number: 2. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasn’t always been the best player on his team. But what he does have is an intangible grace that makes him the face—and the hero—of the modern Yankee dynasty, and of America’s game. In The Captain, Ian O’Connor draws on unique access to Jeter and more than 200 new interviews to reveal how a biracial kid from Michigan became New York’s most beloved sports figure and the face of the steroid-free athlete. O’Connor takes us behind the scenes of a legendary baseball life and career, from Jeter’s early struggles in the minor leagues, when homesickness and errors threatened a stillborn career, to the heady days of Yankee superiority and nightlife, to the battles with former best friend A-Rod. All along the way, Jeter has made his Hall of Fame destiny look easy. But behind that leadership and hero’s grace there are hidden struggles and complexities that have never been explored, until now. As Derek Jeter closes in on 3,000 hits, something no Yankee has ever achieved, The Captain offers an incisive, exhilarating, and revealing new look at one of the game’s greatest players at the apex of his career. Fire Joe Morgan gang, where are you in our time of need?

bmfc1 Oct 15 2010 07:56 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

Speaking of Jeter, Minka Kelly is lovely, but there must be some other lovely woman out there that he hasn't been with to get the title of Sexiest Woman Alive. http://www.esquire.com/women/the-sexies ... o?click=pp

MFS62 Oct 15 2010 08:02 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

About Jeter: But what he does have is an intangible grace that makes him the face—and the hero—of the modern Yankee dynasty, and of America’s game. Its that intangible grace that has gotten a lot of guys beat up. Later

HahnSolo Oct 15 2010 08:13 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

I've coached little league for four years, and I've never seen any kids 'squabble' over wearing #2. And this is in the middle of MFY territory!

Edgy DC Oct 15 2010 08:40 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

As an editor, you'd just love to force the writer to produce the book without using the word "intangible."

HahnSolo Oct 15 2010 08:58 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

I give the copywriter credit, they really channeled their inner O'Connor to get that flap copy in the right voice.

Vic Sage Oct 15 2010 09:21 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

Do you think the copywriter also had to suck the captain's spunk to capture in his prose that not-so-unique O'Connorian gargling sound?

Fman99 Oct 15 2010 01:04 PM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

HahnSolo wrote: I've coached little league for four years, and I've never seen any kids 'squabble' over wearing #2. And this is in the middle of MFY territory! My son played tee ball this year and was on the "Yankees." The coach reserved the #2 jersey for his own son who was also on the team. I reserved vomit in my mouth from the entire process. Fboy wore #6 and slugged it like a younger, less-nose-pick-ier Joe Torre.

G-Fafif Oct 15 2010 01:50 PM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

Extra Tastee-Freez for the kid who asks for No. 2 and then does No. 1 on it. (No offense Bobby V, Damon Buford, et al.)

Benjamin Grimm Oct 15 2010 01:51 PM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

By that logic, Billy Martin's jersey would fare even worse.

Vic Sage Oct 15 2010 03:37 PM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

i just got that... HEH HEH HEH. poopie joke. good one.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 16 2010 09:26 AM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

O'Connor's Jeter-lust raises an interesting question. He's been hyping Jeter in stories, and his Jeter-centric tweets are legendary. Now he's coming out with a book about Jeter. If I were the company signing his checks, I'd wonder if he's using his columns and tweets to sell his book, fearing that they might not be the most objective pieces of work out there. To us on the new side of the room, sports reporting seems a little too cozy and murky.

Ashie62 Oct 16 2010 02:17 PM Re: Baseball Books That Mets Fans Won't Be Buying

Vic Sage wrote: Do you think the copywriter also had to suck the captain's spunk to capture in his prose that not-so-unique O'Connorian gargling sound? Now thats intangible grace!