Mike Sowell
Autor/a de The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920
Sobre l'autor
Mike Sowell is a former sportswriter and journalism professor at Oklahoma State University. He has also written One Pitch Away: The Players' Stories of the 1986 League Championships and World Series and July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty. He now lives in Tulsa, mostra'n més Oklahoma. mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Oklahoma State University
Obres de Mike Sowell
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 3
- Membres
- 206
- Popularitat
- #107,332
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 10
On the plus side:
• I learned the details about this tragedy, which ultimately led to mandatory use of batting helmets many years later
• It was interesting comparing modern day baseball to 1920’s baseball, where a player might get a “ground rule” double because his ball hit a policeman’s horse or a game getting called due to darkness or parents handing small children onto the field to shake Babe Ruth’s hand after a home run or fans being charged with petty larceny for keeping balls hit into the stands
On the minus side:
• Too much detail for my taste, including blow by blow accounts of many individual games
• Numerous formatting issues, such as spelling errors, inconsistent use of quotation marks, and misplaced hyphens in the e-book
• It lacked a personal connection to the players; instead, it was a straight-forward narrative telling what happened first, second, third, etc. I guess I just didn’t care for the style of the author, which is an individual taste.
Recommended to those who enjoy detailed stories of the history of baseball.… (més)