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2019 Summer Baseball Titles: Ernie Banks, Ron Swoboda, David Cone, the Modern Yankees Dynasty, and Baseball's Unwritten Rules

When Ken Griffey Jr. broke into the Majors in 1989, I remember he was called out for having the audacity to wear his cap backwards during pregame activities. “Disrespectful,” tut-tutted the veterans. But Griffey was just having fun, in the same way that today’s players are exuberant in their celebrations.

Week of March 22, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of March 22nd include THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, a powerful novel based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.; THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd, an inspiring account of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her; THE SECOND LIFE OF TIGER WOODS, in which Michael Bamberger --- who has covered Tiger Woods since the golfer was an amateur --- draws upon his deep network of sources inside locker rooms, caddie yards, clubhouses, fitness trailers and back offices to tell the true and inspiring story of the legend’s second act; and HERE'S THE CATCH, right fielder Ron Swoboda's account of the Mets' amazing 1969 season, the people he played with and against (sometimes at the same time), and what life was like as an Every Man ballplayer.