Reddit mentions of Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

Will Leitch wrote the perfect explanation of why in this book (which everyone should read) and I'll try and fail to paraphrase it here:

Take your favorite team. Who can be said to "be" that team? Certainly, the players. The coaches. The GM. The owner(s). The scouts, the announcers maybe, the technicians, the marketing department, the ushers, everyone who works for the organization. But none of those people are permanent. Most last a couple years, a lucky few last a decade or more. The only real constant is the fans. They are the team. Not all of them will remain lifelong devotees, but a lot of them will. They'll pass it on to their kids and those kids will pass it onto theirs. A fanbase, as a composite entity, "is" its team in a much more significant way than a bunch of transient millionaires and executives and scouts and beer vendors are.

So yeah, fuck this guy.

Hands down, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. The language of the game makes for fascinating reading. One of those books where you can just open to a random spot and start reading, and be sucked right in.

I also just read Will Leitch's "Are We Winning?" and enjoyed it immensely. I found myself reading parts out loud to my SO, and now she wants to read it. So it's not just for baseball diehards.