Will, George

• Men At Work

  • The popular conservative columnist/pundit turns out to be a tremendous fan of baseball, and it really shows as he explores his love of the game and interviews a variety of baseball people to try to reveal to the reader and casual fan of the intricacies that pervade what you may accept as a simple, easy game played on a Sunday afternoon. At times, Will's haughty tone strikes the absolutely perfect balance of wit and seriousness required of the true baseball fan. It's a good book from an objective point of view (as opposed to many baseball books, which simply span a given player's career), and it compares favorably to Feinstein's "Play Ball" (also reviewed in these pages), though Will's book is less about the politics of baseball and more about the playing of baseball.

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