I Don't Care if We Never Get Back: 30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever
First, this book—about the authors’ successful attempt to attend an entire game in each of the 30 Major League parks in 30 days during the 2013 season—is ­moronically contrived, and at a cost of some 22,000 miles’ worth of fossil fuels. And if the banter between these two knuckleheads, one a Harvard senior and the other a recent Harvard grad, is meant to be funny, it kind of isn’t: for instance, their Yankee Stadium MVP seats were so close to the action you had a legitimate chance of being named the player of the game. Still, stacking together these 30 stadiums, one after the other, is a great way to contrast and compare the unique experience each of them offers fans. And, almost despite themselves, Blatt and Brewster make some wonderfully salient points: It made far more sense to root for the success of your favorite doctor than it did for your favorite player. A quirky book that just might draw a crowd. --Alan Moores