Baseball bookshelf 2017. Part 8

This is the last part of the “Baseball bookshelf 2017” series.

In “Baseball Life Advice” the Canadian novelist Stacey May Fowles, an avid Toronto Blue Jays fan, raises topics not often discussed, starting with an affecting account of how, during periods of intense depression, the game kept her going when nothing else would. And her analysis of everything from Jose Bautista’s epic bat flip to Jose Reyes’s public rehabilitation after his suspension for domestic abuse.

“Fail Better” by Mark Kingwell, a University of Toronto philosophy professor, is a ballpark ramble of memoir, lore and nostalgia. In one brief detour, he draws a line from Chicago’s champions to the election of the President, Donald J. Trump. Kingwell doesn’t quite say it, but the implication is clear: This is what happens when the Cubs win the Series.

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