All About Books -- July 23, 2009




All About Books | NET Radio show

Summary: Otis Young hits home with Allen Barra's "Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee," an in-depth biography of the quotable catcher; Young also eyes "Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself" by Michael Shapiro, a behind-the-scenes look at the 1950s team managers and their fight to keep baseball America's most popular sport.