But it is Jim Brosnan’s Pennant Race, a book I return to every couple years and a book that enlivens me each time more than the last—more, certainly, than the baseball season often does ...

Jim Brosnan, who helped pitch the Cincinnati Reds ... and “Pennant Race,” that were the first inside accounts of a baseball team written from a player’s perspective, died June 28 at a ...

Over nine seasons in the majors, Jim Brosnan was a curveball artist ... warts-and-all insider’s view of the national pastime. Brosnan, who left baseball to pursue a writing career that had ...

I’ve always thought of Jim Brosnan as complete in a way that few other players have been in the whole sprawling history of baseball. Of course, if you look at nothing but the cold hard facts of ...

Former pitcher Jim Brosnan, known as much for writing about life in baseball as helping the Cincinnati Reds reach the 1961 World Series, has died. He was 84. The Simkins Funeral Home said he died ...

Baseball is a tough game and ... Jonathan Yardley's e-mail address is yardleyj@washpost.com. Jim Brosnan played for the Cubs, the Cardinals and the Reds. His book "The Long Season" influenced ...

It never occurred to (Jim) Brosnan that people in baseball would consider (his sports autobiography) invasive. But they believed it to be that and more, a betrayal of fraternity rules. He had ...

Several weeks ago, I was asked by The Daily Beast to recommend my favorite books that capture the spirit and essence of baseball. ADVERTISEMENT The Long SeasonBy Jim Brosnan 50 years ago ...

NEW YORK — Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief pitcher but gained greater fame and consequence in the game by writing about it, died last Saturday in Park Ridge ...

MORTON GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Former pitcher Jim Brosnan, known as much for writing about life in baseball as helping the Cincinnati Reds reach the 1961 World Series, has died. He was 84.