20 million men and women in this country play softball. On the surface, The SoftballGame is about men and their need for battles. Aggression is as coded in our DNA as is ourneed to reproduce. It is a fun game with laughs recalled from years playing softball. The old storytelleris reluctant to do battle. He tells the confrontation in the first person singular, episode byepisode. The game is a tribal struggle played by redneck, bad guys and middle class,semi-affluent, anti-heroes. Coming to the rescue is Beth - - a woman! Beth reduces the male struggle to a farce. The driving timbre is the storytellersexperiences with three females whose lives are indirectly, obliquely, and directly affectedby his wars at softball. The Softball Game is about these women. Phaedra literally hands the young warrior his first sexual experience. Entering the man world still a child, he meets Bridgette his playtoy. She is atransition to adulthood and the paragon of summer love. Playing at sex with adult bodiesand a childs maturity, they both lose. Then comes Beth. If you read one chapter, it should be 11. There has never been a hero like her.
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A published writer in the business world with The Money Game: Real Estate and The Sell Game [Westmoreland Company, Buffalo, NY], John L. Kinsler has a degree in natural science, biology, and English from the University of Delaware and has been a science teacher for 20 years. He has written numerous articles for education periodicals including two recent publications: Biological Web Dynamics, The Science Teacher, November 1997 and High School Students at the Zoo?, The Virginia Journal of Education, March 1999.Young people have been instrumental to his success in life including over 12 years of coaching softball, track, and basketball state championship athletes. Mr. Kinsler teaches in Virginia Beach, VA where he lives with his wife Susan and two sons. He has six adult daughters.
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The book was amazing. I am not a fan of the sport, but having it be the only novel on the subject, i gave it a shot. Amazing structure, gives a real-life appreciation of the players in this time.
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WOW!!!!!!!!,
By Sean Moran (Virginia Beach, VA) - See all my reviews
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One word......Genius.I couldn't put it down. Before I read this book I didn't think I could go on with my life. But after The Softball Game, I have the will to go on. I will see another day because of the sheer brilliance of the man who we mortals know as simply KINSLER.
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Kinsler = Genius,
By Sean Moran... (Virginia Beach, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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Just kidding about the one star...Mr Kinsler is the greatest teacher alive and he writes like an intellectually superior Darwin...
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