The Thinking Fan: Baseball’s labor strife may be worst ever
There isn’t much new in Leonard Koppett’s analysis of the current labor situation, except he very simply explains why it is that what the players do during the current negotiations won’t help to solve baseball’s problems.
Koppett was the first guy I read who treated baseball as more than an exercise in hero worship. It seems he must be close to 100 years old now, but it’s good to see he’s still kicking.
I should also point out that his book The Thinking’s Fan Guide to Baseball, originally issued in 1966, is kind of a PBS version of baseball, which feels like it should be a dismissal but it isn’t. Maybe that’s because Koppett is my idea of a PBS guy, smart, funny, self-confident, inquiring, more philosopher than anything else, as oppossed to the sentimental aesthetes who seem to have taken over public television.
This is a fine book that has held up all these years and is a must for any thinking fan.
It’s out of print, apparently, but if you follow the link you might find a used version.