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Title: Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball by David Wells, Chris Kreski ISBN: 0060508248 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14
Rating: 5
Summary: Go Boomer!
Comment: Being from Texas, I've never been a Yankees fan. In fact, I downright despise the Yankees. But I've always loved Boomer! He's like a return to Babe Ruth! The good old days of baseball. The carousing, the drinking, the brawls, the head-banging. It's great! I'm sorry Wells had to pay a $100,000 fine for this book, but for the rest of us, at $..., it's a bargain! In fact, I'm not much of a reader. But this ranks right up there with my other favorite book, "Make Every Girl Want You" by John Fate & Steve Reil. Hey - both books focus on meeting & picking up women! Anyway, read Boomer's book & see what it's like to be a major leaguer, living on the wild side!
Rating: 5
Summary: PERFECT I'M NOT
Comment: Being a lifelong baseball fan, I read anything I can get my hands on regarding it. I personally found this book extremely entertaining and very enjoyable. David Wells has much to tell about his rise to the top of AMERICAS GAME. He brought me on a wild ride from the beaches of southern California to the bars in Manhattan. His writing about baseball is excellent as well. If you are a fan, READ IT. If the boring RED SOX had a few characters like Wells, maybe it could spark them to winning something.
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't believe the hype
Comment: I'm not sure why David Wells was slapped with a six-figure fine over this book. Most of the "controversy" appears to be caused by out-of-context quotes randomly selected by the press. The supposed negative statements about teammates Mike Mussina and Roger Clemens are spoken in the larger context of praising their baseball skills. The much-criticized "25 to 40 percent" statistic of ballplayers who use illegal steroids and performance-enhancing drugs ("10 to 25%" is the number in the edited book) is part of an enlightening discussion of how Jose Canseco went from being a minor-league toothpick, to a tree trunk with 462 career home runs (and a book deal of his own).
Anyway, this book is just plain funny. Most sports biographies are written by sportswriters: half of them by Dick Schaap, half by Peter Golenbock, and Catfish Hunter for some reason chose Armen Keteyian. Wells goes with comedy writer Chris Kreski, best known for William Shatner's non-fiction epics, and "Growing Up Brady". Kreski's also a lifelong Mets fan, which makes the book easier for me to read, certainly. His ability to recap baseball games is only adequate -- he makes some minor factual errors, misspells some of the player names Wells dictated into the tape recorder, and gives Wells an impossibly specific memory about old games ("Two hours and forty-eight minutes later, 49,328 screaming fans watched me ...") -- but gives Boomer plenty of jokes and cutting insights into the many peaks and valleys of his career.
Wells decries the corporate naming of Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, saying that to him, it'll always be the Jack Murphy Stadium of his youth. Which is a wonderful sentiment... and wrong, since it was actually called San Diego Stadium until Wells was 17.
Boomer doesn't use the space to get on a soapbox and preach about baseball. No diatribes about interleague play, or the wild card. Wells is more interested in topless girls in the stands during spring training. He's clearly having too much fun in the major leagues to worry about salary caps and the fate of small market teams. Who would you rather read, Wells meeting Metallica's Lars Ulrich and describing Joe Torre's shock at AC/DC lyrics, or Whitey Herzog's whining about salary arbitration.
For a quick spring-training read, it's hard to get more entertaining than "Perfect I'm Not". If nothing else, hopefully Boomer will get his penalty money back in additional sales. And then lose twice to the Mets this summer.
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Title: Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee by Bill Madden ISBN: 044652932X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Me and My Dad : A Baseball Memoir by Paul O'Neill, Burton Rocks ISBN: 0060524057 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 by Roger Kahn ISBN: 0151006288 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The New York Yankees: New York Yankees - 100 Years - The Official Retrospective by Ballantine, Rare Air Ltd, George, III Steinbrenner ISBN: 0345460901 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Pennants and Pinstripes: The New York Yankees 1903-2002 by Ray Robinson, Christopher Jennison ISBN: 0670892149 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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