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Special offer on ebook version of Dirt

July 27th, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

The run of strong reviews continues for The Greatest Show on Dirt with a flattering take by Ben Hill on MiLB.com last week. Ben covers the minor leagues extensively and has spent quite a bit of time visiting ballparks all over the country, so I’m flattered he enjoyed the book so well. Here’s some of [...]

Back from Durham–what a trip!

May 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off · Baseball, Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

So, I’m back from Durham and still trying to process all of the people I met and places I visited in an action-packed three days. Normally even a long weekend feels like mere moments when I walk back into work the next day, but today at work it actually felt like a week since I’d [...]

‘Dirt’ now available at Regulator, Quail Ridge Books

April 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

Ever since the Raleigh News & Observer writeup on me and the book ran a couple weeks back, there has been a growing buzz in the Triangle area in North Carolina. The Greatest Show on Dirt is now available in two local independent book stores: The Regulator Bookshop in Durham and Quail Ridge Books & [...]

Q&A with the Raleigh News & Observer

April 8th, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

The positive reviews in Tampa and Los Angeles were great and much appreciated, but today we have finally made inroads on Tobacco Road, with a piece appearing in this morning’s edition of the Raleigh News & Observer. N&O readers live in Bulls country, so this is big. One of two major papers in the Triangle [...]

“Easy to imagine as being the starting point for a movie script” — Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News

April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

This is the one I’ve been waiting on. Every April, Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News immerses himself in the world of baseball books, running a month-long feature called “30 baseball books in 30 days.” Not only did he include The Greatest Show on Dirt, he was kind enough not to torture me [...]

“It’s a good read” – Bob D’Angelo, Tampa Tribune

March 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

The most significant review–in terms of both reach and content–of The Greatest Show on Dirt hit the internet tonight when Bob D’Angelo of the Tampa Tribune introduces Lane Hamilton to readers of his Sports Bookie blog. Bob had a lot of nice things to say about the book. Here are a few excerpts. Author James [...]

Seamheads review of The Greatest Show on Dirt: ‘major league heart’

February 21st, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews

The honor of the first review of The Greatest Show on Dirt goes to Seamheads.com, where Jeff Polman weighed in with his thoughts on the novel Monday. Here’s the upshot: What’s truly refreshing about Bailey’s book is that it lovingly plummets us into a minor league world we don’t see enough of. Sure, it would [...]