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3.0 out of 5 stars
Coffee table reading,
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This review is from: Baseball's Bad Hops and Lucky Bounces (Paperback)
For what it is, not a bad selection of anecdotes and trivia. Could have done without the author's aside comments throughout the book and the stuff on Japanese baseball is now so out of date that it's irrelevant. From 1994 to now 2005, things have changed a lot across the Pacific such as tie games no longer the norm, catchers do block the plate, schedule is 140 games and saying fan seldom boo is just plain strange...Maybe in Tokyo but obviously this guy never went to a Hanshin Tigers vs. Yomiuri Giants game in Nishinomiya or any Hiroshima Carp home game.
I did not get this fascination to mention Japanese baseball whenever he could yet almost nothing is culled from the rich Caribbean baseball history. The book is, of course, mainly about MLB's wacky and wonderful and on that score it still is worth the $1.57 I paid to buy this used. |
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Baseball's Bad Hops and Lucky Bounces by Mike Blake (Paperback - Feb. 1995)
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