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Title: Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0-618-05669-6 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: This is my favorite baseball book. It's about the game and all the layers that go into it. You can do this with any sport, but I love baseball and Okrent dissects both pitch counts and player histories with care. I remember these players, but I've never rooted for either team and I still think that this book is fascinating. I often think of this book as I go to ballgames and strike up conversations with fellow fans about not only the situations of the game in front of us, but how this game connects to so many other games in the past.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great idea but author did not follow through
Comment: A couple of things I was not thrilled about: 1. He mainly talked about the Milwaukee Brewers significantly more than the Baltimore Orioles. 2. He talked way too much about the management issue of the Brewers (how they were relocated, payroll). Other than that it's a fun book to read but there needed to be more baseball discussion rather than discussion of topics that isn't really baseball at the core.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thumbs up from a female fan
Comment: True fans will really enjoy this book, an inning by inning look at a mid-1982 Brewers-Orioles game with frequent digressions on topics like scouting, the abolition of the reserve clause, the shifting balance of power between hitters and pitchers, etc. I agree with one other reviewer that the coverage tipped more heavily toward the Brewers organization and more 'in-depth' background on the Orioles could have been included. In some instances, of necessity perhaps, there was repetition from chapter to chapter and the author was overly fond of the word 'egregious.' Reading Okrent's afterword (dated January of 2000) made me wish that he might write another book, a kind of 9 Innings Redux. The afterward brings up so many important and interesting aspects of the game today, from the inability of many teams to compete (we need revenue sharing!), to the surge in home runs in the late 90's, to the gorgeous new retro parks that have gone up....I cast my vote to have him profile a 21st century contest (maybe in the National League this time) and give us another look at the very best game there is.
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Title: Ball Four by Jim Bouton ISBN: 0020306652 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn ISBN: 0060956348 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0670031690 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Long Season by Jim Brosnan ISBN: 1566634180 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups : A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues by Rob Neyer ISBN: 0743241746 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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