A biography of the pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who was the first rookie to win the Cy Young Award, the greatest honor a professional pitcher can earn.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
obviously dated,
By
This review is from: Sports Star: Fernando Valenzuela (Library Binding)
This book was written more than 25 years ago. The young kids who would have read it in its heyday are now parents.
Recently I read a sports bio designed for young readers and it had various fonts, the photos were in color, it had a useful glossary section, etc. This book lacks all that. It's not eye-grabbing, so I can't imagine a youth in the 2010s picking it up. Those who do read it will love the progress narrative. Valenzuela grew up poor and was of obvious indigenous ancestry. Still, through his natural talent, he went from Any Town, Mexico to Los Angeles. Horatio Alger wrote about males who had these luckly life stories. Valenzuela is Mexican and I think nowadays talented baseball players are picked from the Dominican Republic instead. Don't get me wrong: a parent may want this book for their young Hispanic kid. You can still use it for a book report. It's just that what was big news in the early 1980s is not that way three decades later.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
