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May 15, 2025

REVIEW: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time by Ryan McGee

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / coming-of-age / Memoir / non-fiction / North-Carolina / Sports4 Comments

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina ... more >

July 12, 2024

REVIEW: Mommy for Rent by Lori Handeland

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / businesswoman / infertility / novella / single fatherComments Off on REVIEW: Mommy for Rent by Lori Handeland

A classic romantic novella-Humor with Heart! Kelly Rosholt has just opened a satellite office for her brain child, Rent a Mommy, in Wisconsin. Once upon a time, all Kelly wanted was to be a mother. When her dreams were dashed, she started a business doing everything a mommy does—for a ... more >

May 20, 2024

REVIEW: Baseball: The Movie by Noah Gittell

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / Baseball Player / Movies / non-fiction / Sports10 Comments

Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious ... more >

March 25, 2024

REVIEW: The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / Baseball / Cancer / Cult / Florida / friendship / Historical / older characters / Sheriff / Small-Town2 Comments

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Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her. Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly ... more >

July 11, 2023

REVIEW: The All-American by Susie Finkbeiner

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / Alternate POV / Athletes / Baseball / coming-of-age / First-Person / gender equality / gender roles / Historical / Michigan / politics / sisters / Young-Adult2 Comments

Two sisters discover how much good there is in the world–even in the hardest of circumstances It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every ... more >

September 2, 2022

REVIEW: The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit by Ron Shelton

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBaseball / Film / filmmaking / Movie / non-fiction9 Comments

From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the ... more >

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