When I caught up with former Penn and Phillies outfielder Doug Glanville earlier this year, he talked about the book he was writing:
Doug Glanville: As a result of the column, I was able to get a book deal with Time Books. I'm currently working on that, and I'm hoping to have that come out in May 2010. Really my focal point now has been to try to sort of establish almost an ambassadorship to the game.
Daily Pennsylvanian: What's the book about?
DG: It's not really about me, it's about players and life in baseball. And I'm hoping people connect to it because they see how
common it is and, in a certain sense, how similar it is to some of the things they go through. So I hope in the book to use the same essay-type concepts, tying in various stories, but use the framework of a season.
Well, he's on schedule: Amazon.com is pegging a May 11, 2010, release date for "The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View. And this morning, Peter Gammons tweeted that it will be "the best baseball book you read this year." There are no shortages of baseball books out there, so that's some pretty high praise.
Glanville will also be at the Kelly Writers House for two hours on Mar. 3.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Awesome for Doug Glanville. What a class guy. Moreover, he's nothing short of miraculous, having carved-out a long major league career, as a leadoff hitter, with an on-base-percentage lower than the average I.Q. But I'm a big Glanville fan, and will buy his book.
For basketball fans: As if Penn's Division-I ranking hadn't tanked enough, Navy, which beat us solidly recently, just lost to Seton Hall by 40. This complicates even further my grappling with the existence of God, let alone a benevolent God.
Meanwhile Harvard, which scared the bejeezus out of UConn two weeks ago, acquitted itself against Georgetown last night with much dignity, losing by 16. In other words, they competed hard, and belonged on the court, against two national powerhouses. Those, Zach Klitzman, are losses with silver linings.
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Steve B -
Did you or any DP reporter catch Cornell's defeating St Johns to win the Holiday Festival at MSG? In addition to Cornell's looking formidable, even without much contribution from a sub par Louis Dale, Coach Donahue was roundly praised for the hard work and the several years it took to build the program.
One of the announcers, I believe Bucky Waters, pointed out he had been an assistant at Penn, and then remarked his surprise Penn had just fired their coach in mid-season. He opined how unusual this was, especially for an Ivy team, didn't really understand it, but had his own opinion - which he didn't share on-air. Ouch!
Seasons Greetings, All.
EN
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Hi Ernie!
I didn't see the Cornell game but was well aware of it, in addition to Cornell's prior squeaker over Davidson. I'm not a big Bucky Waters fan and personally don't take him too seriously. He's been around forever and has never struck me as a particularly incisive analyst.
Certainly it's no big news, or even debatable, that Donahue's done a wonderful job at Cornell; naturally, in retrospect, he's made Penn look foolish for having let him go.
But regarding Bucky Waters' keeping his opinion to himself--I doubt we're worse off for not knowing what was in his head? The guy's about as interesting and controversial as white bread, no disrespect to white bread.
How are you? I hope well.
Best, Steve