Category: books

December 14, 2011

Baggarly lists Giants Top 10 Prospects for Baseball America

Andrew Baggarly, the Giants beat writer for The San Jose Mercury News, has listed Class-A outfielder Gary Brown as the team's top prospect in a new Top 10 list for Baseball America. Baggs' list is not much different from the one ...

December 7, 2011

Book review: “Baseball Saved Us” by Ken Mochizuki

For the past two winters, the San Francisco Giants have been engaged in rumors about Japanese baseball players. In 2010, they were linked to Tsuyoshi Nishioka, who wound up going to the Minnesota Twins. And just this week, the Giants were ...

October 3, 2011

Book review: “A Moment In Time” — Ralph Branca

OCT. 3 -- When Ralph Branca's new book A Moment In Time ($25, Amazon) arrived at my house last Thursday, my 7-year old son asked me, "Who's Ralph Branca, dad?" When I told him he was the fella who coughed up Bobby ...

February 7, 2010

Willie Mays biography released

This article appeared in today's San Francisco Chronicle and is re-posted here, courtesy Andrew Hoyem. There are many other greats: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente. Biographies exist for all of them, but to date there has ...