Baseball's 2007 media: Part II
Continuing our reviews of what's new in baseball media:
The book: "101 Reasons to Love the Dodgers," by Ron Green Jr. (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 120 pages, $14.95)
The windup: The title pretty much says it all. Lots of pictures, a few words of history.
The pitch: Don't infer any sort of tome by a beloved Dodger fan. Ron Green Jr., has also cranked out "101 Reasons to Love the Yankees" and "101 Reasons to Love the Cardinals," and his brother, David, did "101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox" and "101 Reasons to Love the Cubs." Roy Green Jr., is a native of North Carolina, a sportswriter for The Charlotte Observer and the author of two previous books in a series called “101 Reasons to Love." Somewhere, there's probably 101 reasons to love the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but no one's got around to it yet. Don't assume there's any sort of ranking, either. Vin Scully is listed at No. 61 (with Jaime Jarrin at No. 62). Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series homer is at No. 88 (coincidence?) It's as if they've taken much deeper researched books as "The Dodgers Encyclopedia" or "Illustrated History of the Dodgers" and condensed them into a children's book that apparently isn't intended for children. We'd love to give you 101 reasons to actually buy it, but you'd probably get all you're going to out if by thumbing through it in your local Barnes & Noble.