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Title: OUR TRIBE : A BASEBALL MEMOIR by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0-684-84505-9 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read for all fathers and sons
Comment: This book is as much a story about a son and his relationship with his father as it is about baseball, and tells each of those stories wonderfully. For basball fans it is an entertaining history of the Cleveland Indians and is full of colorful players, managers, and even owners. From the perspective of this one baseball team, the reader has a ring side seat on how much our country, society, and professional sports have changed and grown over the last 75 plus years. Just from the standpoint of the baseball Terry Puto is as good as Ken Burns or George Will.
But the story within the story is really about the author and his father. That relationship is one that is full of joy and sadness, wonderful memories and yet regrets. The author comes to better understand and appreciate his father after a stroke makes it impossible to talk to his father. In a cruel irony, when the time came that the author was ready and wanted to share stories and talk to his father, he was not able to.
All fathers and sons should read this book.
A final comment on Terry Pluto's writing style. I have read three of Mr Pluto's books and appreciate the way he writes in a clean, no non-sense style and yet fills his books with so much detail and color.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just a great baseball book
Comment: This is a superb book because it goes beyond being a great sports book. Terry Pluto's weaving of his relationship with his father into his lifetime love of the Cleveland Indians makes it a book that readers will think about long after they've finished reading it. It's not necessary to be a Tribe fan to enjoy this book. I'd even go as far to say that a reader need not be a baseball fan to feel empathy and self-reflection on his or her parent-child relationship, regardless of whether the person is the parent or the child. I've also read the author's "Loose Balls", a wonderful look back at the American Basketball Association, and recommend that to those who remember the ABA (go Oakland Oaks!) and to those who weren't around to enjoy those years.
Rating: 5
Summary: For all Baseball fans - not just Cleveland ones
Comment: I am definitely not a fan of the Indians,but I loved the book. If you are a fan of any team, you should enjoy this. Pluto drops fun anecdotes of Indians history and trivia throughout Our Tribe. He also comes to grips with his relationship with his father. An enjoyable read.
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Title: CURSE OF ROCKY COLAVITO: A LOVING LOOK AT A THIRTY-YEAR SLUMP by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0684804158 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 17 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio by Terry Pluto ISBN: 1886228620 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS BROWNS TOWN by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0684822466 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Browns Town 1964: The Cleveland Browns and the 1964 Championship by Terry Pluto ISBN: 1886228728 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Being Brown: What It Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan by Scott Huler, Gray, Company Publishers ISBN: 1886228310 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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