Baseball season is back! It just seems to work out this month that a lot of the books I have been reading are new releases. Mike Schmidt was one of my favorite players when he played third base for the Phillies, and I greatly respect his opinion. If you are a really lazy reader, you can always get the gist of this book simply by reading the title. Schmidt’s publisher must have thought of this as a dissertation. Still, I agree with almost everything Schmidt says, and I believe Roger Maris still holds the home run record (the non-steroid mark, that is).

By the way, the title is so long, the whole thing wouldn't fit above, so here it is in its entirety:

Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster Salaries, Sham Records, and a Hall of Famer’s Search for the Soul of Baseball