When the Game Was Ours Review
July 23rd, 2010 No comments

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 [...]

Outstanding. The book traces the evolution of soccer tactics throughout the world, with recurring chapters on England, continental Europe, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina. The journey begins in England and Scotland in the 19th century, then expands outward. Wilson masterfully weaves together the stories of some of the most famous teams, the formation they used, and [...]