Sports books released over the last year or so cover a gamut of topics – serious to fun, baseball to bicycling, from adventure to competitive sports and much more.
The author focuses on four men whose pivotal convergence helped shape the 1948 Cleveland Indians: Owner Bill Veeck, pioneer Larry Doby, pitching great Bob Feller, and drawing-card hurler Satchel Paige. Epplin is an accomplished writer, and this – his first book – is a well-researched effort garnering great reviews
The author offers a vantage that a college basketball referee has through Ed Hightower, a veteran official in the Big Ten. It’s a cerebral approach, a deep dive into an aspect of sports that true fans should be willing to understand. The referee, as Katz writes, “stands dead center in that snarled intersection between the pursuit of victory and the principle of fairness.”
