In this solo episode, Colin McDonough flies solo for a summer reading list — swapping the stadium for the sports section of the local bookstore. A nod to the DoaR crew’s day jobs in education (still on the duck hunt for a sponsor), Colin serves up book reports on his recent reads before diving in with quick, spoiler-free reviews. On the docket: Scott Miller’s Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will; Keith O’Brien’s Heartland, on Larry Bird and Indiana State; Dan Shaughnessy’s chronicle of the 1980s Larry Bird Celtics; Jim Calhoun and Dom Amore’s More Than a Game; Clayton Trutor’s Boston Ball, on Pitino, Calhoun, and Gary Williams in 1980s Boston college hoops; and Ian O’Connor’s Dan Hurley biography Never Stop. Colin also touches on the state of the Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets down the stretch, plus a non-sports shout-out to historian Colin Woodard.

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