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Title: BUNTS : CURT FLOOD CAMDEN YARDS PETE ROSE AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON BASEBALL by George F. Will ISBN: 0-684-83820-6 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An intelligent insight from an enduring fan of the game.
Comment: Will's book is segmented by nature. It is a collection of essays and reviews, and is therefore not a narrative at all. However, each short stanza reflects as much about Will's personal devotion to the game as his refreshingly candid assessments of American culture. It is primarily a book for Chicago Cubs fans. He traces the evolution of baseball as a whole and counterparts this with the mediocre constancy of his beloved Cubbies. "Bunts" is about undying patriotism to the American pastime and one's team. He speaks well of the connection between media broadcaster and team loyalty. Will cites evidence that an over-reaching Federal Communications Commission once tried to take control of baseball broadcasts and ban partisan sportscasting. If they had succeeded, the late Harry Caray would have never had the chance to delight us as the voice of the Cubs, whose popularity outnumbers nearly every team despite ninety years without winning a World Championship. For the real baseball fan, intent on remembering the past with sentimentalism, intelligence, and conservative flair "Bunts" belongs in the baseball book Hall of Fame.
Rating: 5
Summary: Baseball, Philosophy, Politics and Humor. What a treat!
Comment: George Will's ability to weave the fabric of Baseball into everyday life is incredible. I found myself wondering, after finishing this wonderful book, had read a book about Baseball or Mr. Will's philosophy of life? Bunts is a copulation of magazine and newpaper articles written by Mr. Will over the last three decades. His strings them together so that there is never an obvious seam and it flows as if it were written at one time. I found myself laughing constantly at the humor that is ever present in the game and magnified my Mr. Will's writing. If you are a fan of the "worlds most wonderful game" and if in addition you are a fan of Mark Twain's you will love this book. Thank you George Will.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bow-Tie Reflections on Baseball
Comment: Those who have read Will's "Men at Work" already are aware of the author's knowledge of the game as well as his talent to put it into words. This is a compilation of the author's articles on Baseball that have appeared primarily in his newspaper columns over the years. Mr. Will, a spokesman for the political right, discards his politics for these excursions into his passion. Indeed, one is surprized by how often Mr. Will sides with the players in the labor/management diputes that litter modern Baseball. The author shares his nostalgia for the past and his appreciation of the heros of the present. If he seems a bit caught up in his Cubs and Orioles, he can be forgiven because the reader has his/her own favorites. We know the frustration and joy of the same loyalties he shares with us.
I read the first two thirds of the book one "column" at a time between other books. I did so because I had read "The Best of Jim Murray" some years ago and did so over the course of several days. By the mid-point of that book, I came to the realization that Mr. Murray had written the same column for decades. It was just a matter of changing the name of the subject. You don't catch on to that reading two or three columns a week. Well, I read the last third of the book in the course of several hours. I did not get the same reaction that I got to Murray's book. However, I lost track of the number of times the total season attendance of the 1935 St. Louis Browns (80,922) was compared to the Opening Day attendance of the 1993 Colorado Rockies (80,227). There were other such repetitions of facts and figures that were noticeable when the book is read cover to cover. I suggest you savor the articles and let the book entertain you throughout the course of a summer or a year. However you choose to read it, don't miss this intellectual appreciation of what was once known as "America's Pasttime".
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Title: Men at Work : The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will ISBN: 0060973722 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: With a Happy Eye But . . . : America and the World, 1997--2002 by George F. Will ISBN: 0684838214 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 19 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball by Bob Costas ISBN: 0767904664 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone by Roger Angell ISBN: B0000AA9K5 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.45 |
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Title: Clearing The Bases : The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century by Allen Barra ISBN: 0312265565 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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