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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
obviously dated,
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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. |
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Sports Star: Fernando Valenzuela by S. H. Burchard (Paperback - Mar. 1984)
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