from 5hrdrive

Doug Glanville was a major league baseball player who, while good enough to play for nine years, was no superstar. This book consists mainly of stories from his rise in the Cubs organization, nine major league seasons spent with the Cubs, Phillies, Rangers, Cubs (again), Phillies (again), and tim...

from abealy

Doug Glanville wrote a series of wonderful essays on baseball over the last several years for the New York Times. It was always fun and illuminating to read his take on the game. However what reads crisp and literate in a newspaper column has become treacly and sophomoric in a 304 page book. A go...

from singer.phillip

Doug Glanville was a unique baseball player. He is probably most known from his Ivy League education and being the first, first round selection from that league. He had a varied career, from starred prospect, to starter, role player. "The Game From Where I Stand" is a compilation of his insights ...

from jsewvello

"The Game from Where I Stand" is a well written book. It is an impressive product from a ballplayer. Not many athletes could write their own book. However, the contents of the book are rather tame and not that revealing. No other players have to worry about any of their secrets being exposed. The...

from Othemts

Doug Glanville always stood out as one of baseball's friendliest and most intelligent players (even if he did play most of his career with the Phillies) and in his retirement has taken up a second career as an insightful sports writer. I was eager to read this book about his life in baseball whic...