Bobby's Book

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

so far, nothing too interesting, other than his having 2 girlfriends at once in high school. But he's beginning to get injured in the minors so there's more to come

[Edgy MD]

Damn, you so should've written this fuck.



Wait, did he have two girlfriends at once, or did he have two girlfriends at once?

[kcmets]

I thought this thread was going to be about Bobby becoming like the

fiftieth entity to jump on the tri-state bet-bet-bet bandwagon.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Golenbcock would have done better to use all this material as a journalist rather than a ghostwriter.



Back in 1973, Valentine's remarks at a Rotary Club meeting insult teammate Frank Robinson. We experienced the same thing in the famous UPenn speech

[Edgy MD]

Valentine went from the Dodgers to the Angels in a big old six-player deal in which the principals were Robinson and Andy Messersmith.



Nothing signals the end of your run as a highly valued prospect so much as your original organization using you as a throw-in in a trade that's really about somebody else.

[Benjamin Grimm]

When I read that I immediately thought of Shawn Abner.

[kcmets]

Isn't Golenbock the guy that wrote that 600+ page history of the Mets that

got absolutely shredded because it was rife with inaccuracies and stuff?



Asking for a friend.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, Amazin' had some a few useful additions to the record and a whole lot of weird sloppy mistakes — enough, in fact, to make you doubt the credibility of those few useful additions.



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I tend to think of Golenbock as about 100 years old these days. I'm sure I'm off by a few, but he's been offering Yankee chronicles since the mid-1970s.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's 75. Born in 1946.

[stevejrogers]

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Isn't Golenbock the guy that wrote that 600+ page history of the Mets that

got absolutely shredded because it was rife with inaccuracies and stuff?



Asking for a friend.

[Edgy MD]

For my money, The Bronx Zoo is still his master stroke.



Maybe that it's just hard to go wrong with an contemporaneous insider account of such a distinctive subject in such a distinctive period.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: For my money, The Bronx Zoo is still his master stroke. Maybe that it's just hard to go wrong with an contemporaneous insider account of such a distinctive subject in such a distinctive period.

Granted it probably was just professional jealousy bluster, but I'm not sure how a TBZ as a follow up/sequel to TBIB can be done, while still doing justice to the fact that the book is Sparky's (who is not a character in the ESPN tele-movie) LOOGY/setup guy to Goose eye story. While the other was a broad narrative that focused on the larger than life figures of Reggie, Steinbrenner and Martin.



I mean a Lyle centric/POV movie can be made, but if they were moving on the idea of striking while the iron was hot following that 1977 retrospective, it would be quite a let down for whomever studio supposedly Golenbock was in talks with.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I read BRONX ZOO only a few weeks ago and I don't think it aged as well as other shocking baseball books

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

that's not to say it wouldn't make a good Netflix show