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Title: Perfect : The Inside Story of Baseball's Sixteen Perfect Games by James Buckley Jr., Jim Bunning ISBN: 1-57243-454-6 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect connection with perfect games
Comment: I felt what it felt like to be on the mound for the compelling moments when the outcome of the sixteen games in question remained in doubt. Sure, there are many details about many of these games that would be great were they included in the narrative, however finding boxscores and post-game interviews should be relatively easy for any really discerning baseball fan.
"Perfect" is easily accessible; anyone reading this book can immediately relate to every scenario and interaction, even if they have never participated in a perfect game. This is a great way to interact with the history of America's pastime at its pinnacle.
Rating: 1
Summary: See Spot Pitch
Comment: Good writers should be able to make their work suitable for all ages (especially younger readers) without making their prose sound overly simplistic or juvenile. This should be especially easy for books on baseball, since there's "a lot of little boy" in both the writers and readers - it should come naturally. Perfect, unfortunately, is just plain bad. How these writers can take some of the most dramatic stories of baseball and make them uninteresting and virtually unreadable leaves me (nearly) speechless. Even Ken Burns' Baseball series' mention of some of the perfect games in far less space is far more compelling. In addition, I found that there was really very little information - even with the recent games - that isn't already readily available in the briefest of articles found elsewhere. At most a few known quotes and dugout/clubhouse anecdotes can be found for each game, amid a wash of overly simplistic and juvenile text. Book should have been titled "See Spot Pitch". Can't recommend it, sadly.
Rating: 1
Summary: Perfect :The Inside Story of Baseball's Sixteen Perfect Game
Comment: I just have to say that the writing in this book was very bad, and the best part that someone pionted out as the "nearly perfect" section in the back was written by someone else.
do not buy it.
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Title: The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told by Jeff Silverman ISBN: 158574364X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0393057658 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 10 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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