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I Love This Game!: My Life and Baseball

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I Love This Game Kirby Pucket

Kirby Pucket's hard work and persistence has allowed him to be a superstar in major league baseball. Kirby Pucket started playing baseball as a little boy in Chicago. There he played third base, not outfield. In Chicago he played in his neighborhood. His family didn't have much money so he would just throw and catch a ball against his apartment building as much as possible. But when there were enough kids to play a game he would play against them. Sometimes he played with his older brothers and their friends. He held his own playing with them. Kirby soon became good enough to play varsity baseball at his local school. After that, he went through a long and hard trip to the majors. This trip included practices on hot summer days and having to settle for sports facilities that didn't even have bathrooms! It was along that route that he met people that impacted his career a great deal. Among those people there was Kent Hrbek and Bob Symonds, the man that taught him all of the fundamentals of the game. It was people like them that made his career interesting and exciting. Overall, I think that this book was interesting and it is something that a person with a dream can relate to. The book was writen well and that made it easy to read.

KIRBY PUCKETT WAS AND STILL IS ONE OF THE BEST BASEBALL PLAYERS EVER (AND MAYBE ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS). THIS PARTICULAR BOOK WAS A DISPLAY OF PURE ABILITY, BOTH ON THE FIELD AND IN THIS BOOK. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANYBODY,ANY AGE,EVEN IF THEY DON'T ENJOY BASEBALL.HE TALKS ABOUT NEARLY WORKING AT FORD MOTOR COMPANY THE REST OF HIS LIFE AND HIS INCREDIBLE JOURNEY INTO THE BIG LEAGUE. THIS BOOK SHOULD BE PLACED IN THE LITERATURE HALL OF FAME. BUY THIS BOOK IMMEDIATLEY.

this was a great book i would recomened it to any on

Baseball books like this one were hard to come across in Australia during the early 1990s. This book has sentimental value to me, as my mum purchased it for me during a holiday to Dallas Texas in 1994. Also, seeing Puckett's heroics in the 1987, 1991 World Series, and 1993 All-Star Game gives this book extra significance for me personally.

What I enjoyed about this book are the details we would only learn of Mr Puckett by knowing him personally. In particular I admire the fact that he worked in motor vehicle manufacturing, and like all of us he did more than his fair share of a full days work in a normal job. This allows us to appreciate that unlike all those players who are treated like royalty from high school to MLB, Mr Puckett had to work hard each step of the way.

On debut he went 4 for 5 with the bat, which was a most impressive debut, and his career had many fantastic moments thereafter.

It was sad to see him exit baseball prematurely due to illness, and his passing at 45-years old was far too soon, but this book is a wonderful legacy for fans of Mr Puckett's to enjoy.

Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author

This book details the life of Kirby Puckett straight from the man himself.If your a twins fan i reccomend it to you. We Miss you Puck