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Title: Confessions of a Baseball Purist: What's Right, and Wrong, With Baseball, As Seen from the Best Seat in the House by Jon Miller, Mark Hyman ISBN: 0-8018-6316-3 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: wise, rueful, funny and thoroughly enjoyable
Comment: OK, OK, so I'm an Oriole fan, and still grieving Jon Miller's departure for points west. I admit it. Still, I think I can objectively say: this is a terrific read. Miller is smart, opinionated, and articulate, and he *loves* baseball. Moreover, he is acutely conscious of the game's history, and the lessons and perspectives to be gleaned from it. More important, he exhibits a fine sense of humor that doesn't stop at his own doorstep. Any serious baseball fan, anywhere, should enjoy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Must reading for today's baseball fan!
Comment: Had an opportunity to read this book over the Thanksgiving holiday...just couldn't put it down. Jon Miller gives baseball fans and purists an updated insider's view on many of the issues that are of prime concern to today's baseball fans such as: the designated hitter, interleague play, outrageous salaries, current and future hall of famers; and he gives you all the details of his divorce with the Baltimore Orioles and notes interesting tidbits about Baltimore's greedy and incompetent owner -- Peter Angelos.
Easy to read. Easy to understand and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: humorous and entertaining anecdotes and thoughts
Comment: This book brings forth the thoughts of one of the most well known and well respected broadcasters in baseball today. This book came out in 1998 when Miller started as a Giants broadcaster. His broadcasts on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and radio broadcasts for the Giants bring out his pesonality. He's dedicated to his job and had been interested in broadcasting since he was a child. His passion for the game of baseball and his attentiveness to perfecting his craft only added to his skill in the descriptions of his broadcasts and brought the feel of the flow of the game while it's unfolding live in front of his eyes. If you are familiar with Miller's broadcasts on TV or radio then you won't lose a step when reading his book because it is similar to the way he broadcasts. Miller brings about his thoughts about some of the issues in baseball like realignment as proposed by Bud Selig, to the personalities of owners he has known and how they contributed to the rise or demise of a franchise, and stories about Cal Ripken and some insider accounts from the clubhouse about his consecutive game streak. Miller bring a good light-hearted folksy humor that will make you smirk or guffaw with tongue in cheek. It is interesting in the fact that it feels like he conversing with you like you were at a bar and he was telling interesting stories which would be either intriguing or funny. This is a nice book for baseball fans who want to see things from the perspective of a broadcaster. The book reads easily and shouldn't take too long to read at all.
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Title: This Copyrighted Broadcast by Hank Greenwald, Ted Brock ISBN: 0942627458 Publisher: Woodford Publishing Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fair Ball : A Fan's Case for Baseball by Bob Costas ISBN: 0767904664 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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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Title: Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans : Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro by Tim McCarver, Danny Peary ISBN: 0375753400 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy by Andrew S. Zimbalist, Bob Costas ISBN: 0815797281 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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