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Wrecking Crew - The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates

5 stars (Junkies, wino's, pimps and whores.... and baseball) - I've never done hard jail time, and I've also never slept with a stripper, but this book opened a window into a life many of us have chosen to either forget or never look through. It really forces one to think about the realization of dreams and ambitions in ones life versus the things that we do to get there and the lessons we are willing to forget in order to keep those dying dreams alive... there are simple joys in life, like baseball, good sex, and good friends, this book shows that despite our failures as human beings, we are still capable of redemption to some degree and some realization of happiness. 5 stars (THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING!) - This book really does have it all. John Albert invites you into a world filled with drugs, sex, personal demons, and what we all want in our lives, some sort of purpose. This is Less Than Zero with a conscience. 5 stars (Now THIS is baseball!) - This book was totally cool. Baseball, sex, drugs and punk rock. Finally a book about what makes American great! This is a book about me and MY friends. Old punks, bad tattoos, weak livers, the usual. ...
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Take Me Out to the Ballpark Wall Calendar 2006 - A Month-by-Month Tour of Major League Baseball Park

Take Me Out to the Ballpark Wall Calendar 2006 : A Month-by-Month Tour of Major League Baseball Parks Past and Present...
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License to Deal - A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent

1 stars (hypocrisy) - The author is a whole host of contradictions. While he rails against the ethics of sports agents, he himself embarassingly participates in questionable activities to add to his sports roster. The book is a boring read, and after awhile his "holier than thou" attitude begins to grate on you. 5 stars (Informative look into the lives of baseball agents.) - Review: License to Deal by Jerry Crasnick License to Deal by Jerry Crasnick is sub-titled "A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent". The agent is Matt Sosnick, whose most famous client is Dontrelle Willis of the Florida Marlins. Crasnick paints Sosnick and his partner Paul Cobbe as good people and friends to their clients. All this in a field of sharks and wolves. Sosnick and Cobbe routinely try to keep their own clients from abandoning and jumping to other agents while the players are still in the minors or just starting out their careers in the majors. Crasnick makes Sosnick look like the victim. But as Crasnick shows (although he never explicitly states it), Sosnick-Cobbe have their own moments where they are rude, arrogant, aggressive and steal other agents' clients as well. The bottom line is this is a cut throat business and either all agents are victims or none of them are, because they all get screwed and all try to screw others too. Crasnick also writes about other agents and baseball deals in the book. There is a whole chapter on Scott Boras, as well as many other anecdotes and quotes from other agents and baseball management interspersed throughout the book. Overall, Crasnick does a good job describing the life of agents. The middle-tier ones like Sosnick and Cobbe and the stars like Boras and Moorad (now in management with the Diamondbacks). I recommend this book for those that are interested in the business side of baseball. 5 stars (Sports Book of the Year) - Without question, this will go down as the best sports book of 2005. Jerry Crasnick stumbled ...
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The Mental Game of Baseball - A Guide to Peak Performance

5 stars (let me think.......) - Oh yea, that's right. There is no need to think when you're up at the plate. The main thing is to relax and trust your trained body motions/strengths. This book separates the men from the boys. It helps skilled athletes develop to their full potential. In fact, it can even change the way you live your life. Great book for those hot summer nights. 5 stars (Superb book for just about anyone) - I bought this book because I am a baseball fan and my sons play ball as well. I am also an experienced musician who played professionally for some years. I found the book to be a "must read" for ANY performer (athlete, musician, dancer, etc) and a great book for anyone seeking personal success in any pursuit. If you like The Inner Game of Music, or A Soprano On Her Head, you need to get this book. 5 stars (Years of Application) - I read this book as a freshman in college while playing intercollegiate baseball. I can honestly say that the things I learned and applied to my life as a ballplayer have stuck with me over the years. I have since gone on to a top-rated graduate school and a great job. I learned to formulate goals, think positively, and maintain focus and intensity though practicing what this book describes. If you like baseball, but don't play, this book is great as you apply it's principles as I have done over the years. If you do play, it will help you focus on getting the most out of your abilities. ...
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Idiot - Beating -The Curse- and Enjoying the Game of Life

4 stars (Definitely worth it if your a Johnny Damon fan....) - Im a huge red sox fan, so this book was one I was looking forward to. And I was not disappointed by it. It was writen well considering a baseball player wrote it. (although he did have help) I thought that although it was mostly revolving about Johnny Damon's life, it was very good. Johnny Damon is one of my favotire players and anyone else intersted in learning stuff about him that they don't talk about on the radio or TV, I would highly suggest it. 5 stars (Damon is simply the man!!!!!!!!) - As a huge Sox fan this book was aewsome. In it, he reveals the evryday life as a ballplayer and takes you through the good and bad times. He goes through his career from High School to the Boston Red Sox. He especially reviews the 2003 and 2004 Boston Red Sox seasons. The thing that impressed me the most was the fact he was a loyal teammate. This book defends Derek Lowe and Pedro Martinez. He especially defends former teammate, Nomar Garciaparra. He reveals everyting the media said was ludicrous and they ran away from him so he couldn't defend himself and the media could keep doing what they were doing. He also pretty much says the media ran him out of Boston but prior in the book he reveals the Red Sox owners owned alot of that media.They also have a partnership with Nomar's biggest critics, the Boston Globe(Damon doesnt say that in his book, but it is a fact). He simply loves Boston and the fans so it is a must read for Boston fans. 3 stars (Johnny's Right, He Is An Idiot) - Up until I read this book, he was my favorite Red Sox player. Now, not so much. He truly is an idiot and a self centered one at that. No one should speak of the mother of their children in the way he does in this book. His children may read this someday and what will they think. He should be ashamed of himself. ...
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