Take me out to the ball game!
Fenway Park 2, by Werkunz1 on Flickr
Spring is here (more or less), and for many people, that means baseball. What does baseball have to do with libraries you ask? Well, besides our baseball book, DVD, and video game collections, we have a baseball author talk coming up in May.
Mark Armour is a Corvallis-based author who published his second baseball book this spring. It’s called Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, and it’s received some great reviews.
Not being a big sports fan myself, I found this review from Library Journal to be most intriguing:
This is a rich account of one of the 20th century’s great player-managers, his rise from modest beginnings all the way to Cooperstown, and presidency of the American League. Armour … deserves the greatest praise in light of not only Cronin’s importance but also of the critical elements that form the book’s second half: the role of race in sport and America, the rise of unionism, and the class interests of those claiming to have the welfare of fans in mind as they decided upon franchise location, playoff timing, etc. Though Armour is fair in his criticisms of Cronin, he also rightly points out the great contributions of a man whose love for the game brought him to the attention of popes and presidents.
Mark Armour will be speaking at the library on Tuesday, May 11th at 7:00 PM. There will be copies of the book for sale (10% of proceeds to the Friends of the Library), and Mark will be available to sign books.
Mark will be appearing at other locations in the Northwest this spring and summer. Let’s give him a great hometown crowd!
Posted by Lisa, a second floor librarian
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