Thomas Boswell (1) (1947–)

One of my favourite sports books. It is really only a collection of essays on baseball, but all are engaging and, often insightful.

It's a collection of older columns and stories from the late 70's and early 80's, and since Boswell wrote for the Washington Post at the time, a lot of Earl Weaver/Orioles content. This works more for me than maybe those who are interested in other teams, although a handful of stories about life in the minors work for anyone interested in the day to day workings of a player working through the first days of rookie ball or the big league star coaching in a place like Spokane.

A series of essays by Washington Post sports columnist Tom Boswell, first published in 1982. Of most interest to older lovers of baseball, obviously

Boswell is an excellent sportswriter on the topic of baseball, This book is from the early 80's. I haven't been following baseball in this century; wonder what his thoughts are now regarding the game in the light of performance enhancing drugs, and on the sportswriting profession in the age of ESPN, sports blogs, and social media.