Baseball DIY

Kevin Kennedy (who managed both the Red Sox and Rangers and is now the top baseball analyst for Fox) has a new book coming out with Bill Gutman: Twice Around the Bases: The Thinking Fan's Inside Look at Baseball. It got a pretty good write up at Booklist and sounds like a peek inside a manager's head - how decisions are made during the game, that kind of thing. It's a book about baseball strategy (if you can believe that!) Kennedy also managed teams in the Latin America winter leagues and includes stories from that period as well.

One line about the book in the Booklist review really caught my eye: "tales of....the nature of baseball's good-old-boy network, which keeps recycling failed managers." So someone's finally admitting it. Now that should make interesting reading!