I can honestly say I've taken a real shine to Mike Shropshire's work. Or at least his baseball work. I've never read his football work, which is the majority of the books he's written, but his work revolving around the Texas Rangers is smart, delightfully snide, and smarmy as hell. He's only written two books about the Rangers, and they're both about the bad old days, long before the Ron Washington/Josh Hamilton Rangers became the royalty of the American League. But both of them deserve to rank … more