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Bobby's Book

Johnny Lunchbucket Dec 22 2021 03:15 PM

so far, nothing too interesting, other than his having 2 girlfriends at once in high school. But he's beginning to get injured in the minors so there's more to come

Edgy MD Dec 22 2021 03:51 PM Re: Bobby's Book

Damn, you so should've written this fuck. Wait, did he have two girlfriends at once, or did he have two girlfriends at once?

kcmets Dec 22 2021 04:51 PM Re: Bobby's Book

I thought this thread was going to be about Bobby becoming like the fiftieth entity to jump on the tri-state bet-bet-bet bandwagon.

Johnny Lunchbucket Dec 23 2021 05:37 AM Re: Bobby's Book

Golenbcock would have done better to use all this material as a journalist rather than a ghostwriter. Back in 1973, Valentine's remarks at a Rotary Club meeting insult teammate Frank Robinson. We experienced the same thing in the famous UPenn speech

Edgy MD Dec 23 2021 08:04 AM Re: Bobby's Book

Valentine went from the Dodgers to the Angels in a big old six-player deal in which the principals were Robinson and Andy Messersmith. Nothing signals the end of your run as a highly valued prospect so much as your original organization using you as a throw-in in a trade that's really about somebody else.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 23 2021 08:19 AM Re: Bobby's Book

When I read that I immediately thought of Shawn Abner.

kcmets Dec 23 2021 08:32 AM Re: Bobby's Book

Isn't Golenbock the guy that wrote that 600+ page history of the Mets that got absolutely shredded because it was rife with inaccuracies and stuff? Asking for a friend.

Edgy MD Dec 23 2021 08:38 AM Re: Bobby's Book

Yeah, Amazin' had some a few useful additions to the record and a whole lot of weird sloppy mistakes — enough, in fact, to make you doubt the credibility of those few useful additions. [fimg=450]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81zxt-CWiQL.jpg[/fimg] I tend to think of Golenbock as about 100 years old these days. I'm sure I'm off by a few, but he's been offering Yankee chronicles since the mid-1970s.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 23 2021 09:37 AM Re: Bobby's Book

He's 75. Born in 1946.

stevejrogers Dec 23 2021 11:02 AM Re: Bobby's Book

=kcmets post_id=83551 time=1640273545 user_id=53] Isn't Golenbock the guy that wrote that 600+ page history of the Mets that got absolutely shredded because it was rife with inaccuracies and stuff? Asking for a friend.

I seem to remember Golenbock telling some FANDroid/ESPN NY host that he had a movie deal in place for his ghostwritten job with Sparky Lyle about the 1978 season, The Bronx Zoo.



This was after ESPN was airing Bronx Is Burning based on the MFY baseball portion of the NYC in 1977 book Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning



Since nothing seems to have come of that, beyond flapping gums on a radio, I'd say that was a bit of jealousy on his part.

Edgy MD Dec 23 2021 11:21 AM Re: Bobby's Book

For my money, The Bronx Zoo is still his master stroke. Maybe that it's just hard to go wrong with an contemporaneous insider account of such a distinctive subject in such a distinctive period.

stevejrogers Dec 23 2021 01:51 PM Re: Bobby's Book

Edgy MD wrote: For my money, The Bronx Zoo is still his master stroke. Maybe that it's just hard to go wrong with an contemporaneous insider account of such a distinctive subject in such a distinctive period. Granted it probably was just professional jealousy bluster, but I'm not sure how a TBZ as a follow up/sequel to TBIB can be done, while still doing justice to the fact that the book is Sparky's (who is not a character in the ESPN tele-movie) LOOGY/setup guy to Goose eye story. While the other was a broad narrative that focused on the larger than life figures of Reggie, Steinbrenner and Martin. I mean a Lyle centric/POV movie can be made, but if they were moving on the idea of striking while the iron was hot following that 1977 retrospective, it would be quite a let down for whomever studio supposedly Golenbock was in talks with.

Johnny Lunchbucket Dec 23 2021 02:52 PM Re: Bobby's Book

I read BRONX ZOO only a few weeks ago and I don't think it aged as well as other shocking baseball books

Johnny Lunchbucket Dec 23 2021 02:52 PM Re: Bobby's Book

that's not to say it wouldn't make a good Netflix show