A local store has had this wonderful baseball history for sale for over a week, and I’ve been able to enjoy reading it and re-reading favorite portions with increasing pleasure. Hirsch writes in a clear, informative style and has clearly done a great deal of research. Amazon has provided generous extracts, which give the reader [...]
For instance, “It may be that, compared to managers’ dreams such as Joe DeMaggio and the always helpful Stan Musial, Williams is an icy star. But of all team sports, baseball, with its grateful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me [...]
I had and beat testicular cancer just like Lance Armstrong, so I could truly relate to the incredible obstacles that he described in his amazing book.This sincerely is an amazing story.I just wish I could have readit when I was going through my intense radiation treatments in my recovery,because I feel it would have made [...]
I loved this book.The amazing story of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world practically writes itself, especially with access to the journals of Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian “passenger”.The key for any author is not muck up this incredible story.Bergreen succeeds wonderfully by offering a smooth read.The books 400 plus pages fly by.Bergreen seemingly omits nothing and, [...]