This was a freebie. It is a tie-in to a History Channel series, and it is interactive. I'm not sure how good the interactive videos were because my kindle doesn't support them. Still, the volume had a nice use of charts. Part of Summer Civil War reading.
A delightfully fun quick read, meant as a rejoinder to the Bronx is Burning miniseries on ESPN a few years back. Good for people who were yankee fans back in those days or those who have studied the Bronx Zoo of the late 70's. Reggie's take on Billy Martin's self destructive tendencies is intriguing...
Meh. I just wasn't feeling it with this book. It doesn't seem as compelling as some of his other novels (Dreamland, Paradise Alley). It kept jumping back and forth, making it hard to following, especially with so many characters to keep track of.
A true slice of that American pie...or rather a slice of the true American pie (with a dusting of nuts on top)...(I mean "crazy" nuts)...(jesus, this metaphor is falling apart like a...like a bad analogy!). For the better part of the last hundred years, baseball has meant America. The Natural is abo...
Courtesy of The Literary SnobThere are few reasons why I'd pick up a book about baseball. As I compile a mental list, I find that nearly every possibility is due to either necessity or wit. Yet I did pick one up and even read it in its entirety for one very good reason: Bernard Malamud.I read The As...
The multiple plots were initially confusing, but they proved quite interesting once I sorted them out. The details and characters kept me going, though I was disappointed with the somewhat sudden ending that left some things very uncertain. What exactly happened to Esther and Kid Twist, I wanted to ...
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