Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci

Tom Verducci

Jan 2011 · Time Home Entertainment

About this ebook

 No sport has inspired better writing than baseball, and no one writes baseball better than Tom Verducci.As Sports Illustrateds lead baseball writer since 1993, Verducci has witnessed the achievements of the games greatest heroes and told their inspiring stories with unmatched passion and sophistication. He has enriched SIs readers with an insiders perspective on the game, examining subtle shifts in the ever-changing balance between pitchers and hitters, between slumps and streaks, between sacred records and the athletes trying to break them. Despite his deep affection for baseball, however, Verducci has never shied away from the hard truth about the game: his landmark piece about steroids, for instance, changed the baseball landscape forever.These 25 pieces span the generationsfrom Sandy Koufax to Roger Clemens, from Ted Williams to Barry Bonds.They chronicle the important trends in the game and celebrate baseballs brightest stars and most breathtaking performances.They are the best work of a writer at the top of his game.

About the author

Sports writer Tom Verducci was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He received a B. A. in journalism from Penn State University in 1982. He was a sports reporter for Florida Today in Cocoa, Florida for one year. Then he spent 10 years as a sports reporter for Newsday, where he was its national baseball columnist from 1990-1993. He started working at Sports Illustrated in 1993 and also, writes for its online magazine si.com. Currently he is a senior baseball writer for Sports illustrated. He is also a game and studio analyst for FOX Sports and MLB Network for which he has won two Emmy awards. He was named National Sportswriter of the Year in 2014 and 2015. He is the co-writer of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre and the author of The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse.