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  The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2025.    As one might expect from looking at the cover of this book, The Year’s best sports writing, is a compilation of thirty relatively short stories written by different authors who are not likely well known.    One author familiar to me, Hanif Abdurraqib, was deemed the guest editor of the Year’s best sports writing 2025.    Readers can access following link to read our review of his 2024 Book https://richardcampsie.blogspot.com/2025/01/theres-always-this-year-hanif-abdurraqib.html .    He writes a beautiful introduction.      If one reads through this carefully, they will learn that he selected the stories for this book based on not so much what he thought readers wanted to see but more so that the authors were very comfortable in writing what they wanted to print.     He goes on to explain his concept of “aboutness” and how he admires and is influenced by authors that w...

True. Kostya Kennedy. The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson.    As we begin another baseball season, I decided to check out a book about one of the most famous and influential players of all time.     True , by Kostya Kennedy, explains a refreshed, detailed account of the life and times of Jackie Robinson, who did break the color line in major league baseball during the 1947 season but was also one on the most influential players of the 20 th century.        The author breaks the story down in four “seasons”.   The segments were not necessarily Robinson’s best on the field performance but better described as important milestones that occurred in his life.  Part 1 describes some of Robinson’s time playing spring ball in Montreal as a new member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.    Part 2 expands upon his experiences during the summer of 1949, his third season with the Dodgers, where he and his family naviga...