Showing posts with label Cardinals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinals. Show all posts

Friday, June 28, 2019

Celebration

Celebration by Dan O' Neill 185 pages

This book goes through the most memorable moments and players of the Cardinals in the 1980s. Equip with great photos and memorable tales as a way to relive this magical time in cardinals history.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

One Last Strike by Tony LaRussa

One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season by Tony LaRussa - 432 pages

This book chronicles the Cardinals amazing run in 2011 to the World Series Championship.  There are a lot of looks back across LaRussa's career as well especially when he delves into the reasoning behind his managerial style and sometimes controversial decisions.  It's an interesting "inside baseball" look at a season that became a legend.  The only knock I have against the book is that the lengthy passages of essentially play by play of particular games can get a little boring.  I had hoped for a little more behind the scenes revelations.