SOS Father's Day books

Some late suggestions, if you're still looking for a gift that'll make dad smile on Sunday:

== "Golf Freek: One Man's Quest to Play as Many Rounds of Golf as Possible," by Steve Eubanks ($23.95, Crown Publishing, 288 pages).
One thing that Eubanks realized that being a golf writer means a lot of free golf. How much? Why not as much as possible. Hence, the word "Free-k" instead of "Freak."
That was the goal, and the premise for this hilarious book. It's not so much how he got to play free, but who he ended up playing with -- everyone from Butch Harmon to Alice Cooper to Jeong Jang of the LPGA to wearing a blind fold and playing against a blind golfer. He even plays one entire free round with just a six-iron.
Writes Eubanks: "The moral of this story is simple: value is never found on a price tag. True worth is measured in respect and appreciation. The free golf I have played in my life—thousands of rounds with a total retail price stretching into the high six figures—has been more valuable to me than money….”

== "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Golf Rules and Etiquette," by Jim Corbett ($9.95, 192 pages, Alpha Publishers).
Not ever idiot knows what to do on a golf course, and what you think you know may not be what's proper. Corbett, aka Mr. Golf Etiquette, writes about proper dress, improving your pace, what to pack in a bag, and -- most important -- what rules are safe to bend when you're just playing with friends.

=="The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card," by Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson ($24.95, William Morrow, 256 pages)
Dad may never own the famous T206 Honus Wagner tobacco cigarette card -- although if he did, you'd have something to inherit -- so maybe this is the next best thing. Or something to read before he does mortage the house to try to find one. Only a few dozen exist, even fewer that are worth anything. Only one has been traveling around from Wayne Gretzky to a new collector just month is worth more than $2 million, but it's come with a price, to relationships, jealousy, greed ... the seven deadly sins may be wrapped up in this tobacco card.

Other suggestions already reviewed here:
Jason Starks' "The Stark Truth" on who's most overrated and underrated in baseball history;
Sally Jenkins' "The Real All Americans" about the Carlisle Indians, Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner;
Mark Langill's "Game of My Life: Dodgers" and "Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodgers through the lens of Barney Stein"
Craig Bender's "Sports Fan 101: Score the Balance in your Relationship"
"How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball," edited by Gregory F. Augustin Pierce;
"The SABR Baseball List and Record Book"
"Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History," by Cait Murphy