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Today's Books at my Job post is the book entitled Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero by John Positano and Dr. Rock Positano. The book is described at follows: "The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by one of the few who really knew the man behind the legend—candid and little-known stories about baseball icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and others off the field. As told by Dr. Rock Positano, DiMaggio’s closest confidante in New York during the final years of his life, Dinner with DiMaggio is an intimate portrait of one of America’s most enduring heroes. This memoir of a decade-long friendship reveals the very private DiMaggio as he really was—sometimes demanding, sometimes big-hearted, always impeccable, loyal, and a true stand-up guy—while serving up illuminating stories and rare insights about the people in his life, including his teammates, Muhammad Ali, Sandy Koufax, Woody Allen, and more. In 1990, Dr. Rock Positano, the thirty-two-year-old foot and ankle specialist, was introduced to DiMaggio, the pair brought together by a career-ending heel spur injury. Though Dr. Positano was forty years younger, an unlikely friendship developed after the doctor successfully treated the baseball champ’s heel. At the start, Joe mentored Rock but came to rely on his young friend to show him a good time in New York, the town that made him a legend. In time, the famously reserved DiMaggio opened up to Dr. Positano and talked about his joys, his disappointments, and his sorrows as he reflected on his extraordinary life. The stories and experiences shared with Dr. Positano comprise an intimate portrait of one of the great stars of baseball and icon of the twentieth century." #JoeDiMaggio #YankeeClipper #DinnerWithDiMaggio #DrRockPositano #JohnPositano #BooksatmyJob #Bookstagram #Books #Libros #Livres #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #BaseballWriting #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco (at Barnes & Noble)

Today's Books at my Job listing is Steve Steinberg's new book entitled Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age. Here is how the book is described: Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Shocker was traded away to the St. Louis Browns in 1918 by Yankees manager Miller Huggins, a trade Huggins always regretted. In 1925, after four straight seasons with at least twenty wins with the hapless Browns, Shocker became the only player Huggins brought back to the Yankees. He finally reached the World Series, with the 1926 Yankees. In the Yankees’ storied 1927 season, widely viewed to be the best in MLB history, Shocker pitched with guts and guile, finishing with a record of 18‑6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew that Shocker was suffering from an incurable heart disease that left him able to sleep only while sitting up and which would take his life in less than a year. With his physical skills diminishing, he continued to win games through craftiness and well-placed pitches. Delving into Shocker’s baseball career, his love of the game, and his battle with heart disease, Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was. #UrbanShocker #SteveSteinberg #1920sBaseball #NewYorkYankees #MurderersRow #MillerHuggins #BooksatmyJob #Bookstagram #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco (at Barnes & Noble)

Today's Books at my Job post is Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game by John Sexton. Here is how the book is described: "The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.   For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.   Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others.   Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to Godwill enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment." This is an interesting topic regardless if you are a devout religious person or not. I'm going to pick it up and see what it's about. #BooksatmyJob #BaseballAsARoadToGod #JohnSexton #Bookstagram #Books #Libros #Livres #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco (at Barnes & Noble)

Today's Books at my Job post is about the Baseball books located at @bn_whiteplains Love that Baseball is back. #BaseballisBack #BaseballisBackBaby #BooksatmyJob #Bookstagram #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #Books #Libros #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco (at Barnes & Noble)

If you gals and guys out there aren't reading the blog Joe Blogs by @jposnanski you need to. Posnanski's baseball writing is amazing. I recommend checking out the book written with Negro League legend Buck O'Neill entitled The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America. #JoePosnanski #JoeBlogs #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #BaseballWriting #BuckONeill #TheSoulofBaseball #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco

Today's Books at my Job entry is The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy by Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News. Who, as a Baseball fan in the early 1980s, can ever forget George Brett charging the home plate area from the visitors dugout of Yankee Stadium. Veins were bulging, mouth in a snarl making a bee-line towards Yankee manager Billy Martin. Martin contested Brett's homerun by claiming Brett had more than the allowed limit of Pine Tar on his bat. While the initial call of out was later overturned, the remaining innings that were played at a later date had its own drama. Highly recommend this for a trip back to 1980s Baseball #ThePineTarGame #FilipBondy #KansasCityRoyals #NewYorkYankees #GeorgeBrett #BillyMartin #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #Books #Libros #Livres #Bookstagram #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #BooksatmyJob #BaseballSisco (at Barnes & Noble)

With today being the 30th anniversary of the 1986 World Series, I wanted to post a picture of one of my favorite books in my collection: "The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the ... Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best" by Jeff Pearlman is an amazing read. The 1986 Mets were a wild bunch of players who played hard and partied even harder. Having read this book a little over a decade ago, I found myself laughing out loud at the anecdotes concerning the Mets players not only during 1986 but also in backstories concerning the players when prospects. The 1980s were a cocaine and booze fueled era and it is shown to be that way in this book. It is amazing how much the game in terms of the extra-curricular players has changed and how it wasn't reported in the media. Today's nonstop media coverage would have a field day with the 1986 Mets. Give it a read #TheBadGuysWon #JeffPearlman #NewYorkMets #1986BaseballSeason #1986WorldSeries #BaseballBooks #LibrosdeBeisbol #Bookstagram #Books #Libros #Livres #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco #BaseballSiscoAtTheBookstore

Since it seems that the Indians might have to wait a few days to see who they meet in the World Series, their fans might want to pick up a book to bide their time. Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997 by Terry Pluto and Tom Hamilton relieves the glory days of the last Cleveland Indians teams to make the World Series. #ClevelandIndians #GloryDaysinTribeTown #TerryPluto #TomHamilton #1995WorldSeries #1997WorldSeries #JacobsField #BaseballBooks #LibrosDeBeisbol #Books #Libros #Livres #BaseballHistory #HistoriaDelBeisbol #Baseball #Beisbol #BaseballSisco