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Originally Posted by Eric
I liked The Long Season by Jim Brosnan. Good account of a season from a player's point of view
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I never read
The Long Season but I have read Brosnan's follow-up,
The Pennant Race, which is also excellent.
I think it would be interesting to read Brosnan and Bouton's
Ball Four together. They both had a lot in common - intellectual relievers who were out-of-step with their teammates. But Bouton was kinda' the anti-Brosnan. Brosnan stayed mum about a lot of the less-savory aspects of life in the clubhouse that Bouton would later reveal. Which is probably why
Ball Four is still in print and most people nowadays have never heard of Brosnan.