Book review: ‘Power Ball’

Oct 13 2018 by Bleed Cubbie Blue

 

It’s not about the lottery. It’s about baseball and its future.

Rob Neyer’s new book ‘Power Ball’ is about a single baseball game, played between the Athletics and Astros at Oakland on September 8, 2017. Inning by inning, Rob chronicles what happened in the game in detail, all the way up to... well, I won’t spoil the ending.

Except that’s not what this book is about at all. When situations come up in each inning, they spur a tangent that’s about how baseball is played,...

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