“Baseball’s Best (and Worst) Teams:
The Top (and Bottom) Clubs Since 1903“
The author: G. Scott Thomas
The details: Niawanda Books, 586 pages, $24.99, released March 4, 2025; best available at the publishers website and Bookshop.org.
A review in 90 feet or less
Take a look at what could very well be the greatest baseball team ever assembled.
Fifty-five years ago, the 1970 Aviation Little League’s Colt .45s were drawn together as one the most well-intentioned and ill-informed 9-and 10-year olds from the Del Aire adjacent neighborhoods of Hawthorne, California.
It was the first organized baseball team that allowed me to be included. It was the greatest.
So maybe the last vestige of evidential proof of our existence has the coaches’ heads cropped off at the top and another kid aced out on the left side. Not sure how that happened. But I made the cut — second from right, back row, wearing brown hiking boots because my family was heading on a camping trip and delaying it to meet up at the ballfield for this team shot couldn’t have ended soon enough to beat the out-of-town traffic on a Saturday morning.
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