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The Good and the Not Good

Revisado: 02-09-12

Bob Kostas is good. Bob Kostas is smart. Bob Kostas knows baseball.

This is a look at what MLB could do to get better. The owners are not good, they are not smart, so there is little chance baseball will improve.

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A Sad Look at Baseball

Revisado: 02-09-12

This was not nearly as electrifying as MoneyBall. I liked the insight on Joe Maddon and many of the Ray's players. MLB looks very bad for the way they handled the expansion team and the way the share revenue. The deal that had the Rays play in St. Petersberg was a mess. It is amazing that the Rays survived, let along won in the AL East.

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A Story That Will Live Forever

Revisado: 10-22-11

Being an autobiography certain details were left out, which makes more vivid how Satchel Paige saw himself. This is a rich history, full of insight.

The only blemish is that the reader mispronounces Bill Veeck's name at every occurance. It is Veeck as in Wreck (Bill Veeck's 1962 Autobiography) Bill Veeck was very important to Satchel Paige and he endeavored to integrate baseball long before Branch Rickey did. It is regretable that neither the gentleman reading, nor the audio editor, got this right. It takes away from the book at each utterance.

Don't let one blemish cause you to hesitate if you are inclined to listen to the greatest pitcher of all time tell you his tale. I found it enthralling.

After this you may want to listen to "We Are The Ship" which adds a wealth of information about the Negro Leagues Satchel Paige describes in part.

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Swing and a Miss

Revisado: 04-16-11

The book would have been much better if we were told when each interview occurred. That would give us an important perspective on the former player's remarks about today game.

Some interviews spent more time talking about golf than baseball. I would have loved to hear more about the player's talk about things that go on in the clubhouse, or what it was like to play with certain teammates. Too often the interview rambled to irrelevant subjects. That is too bad when you have such famous people at the microphone. For example, ask Johnny Bench what pitch he was calling when Carlton Fisk hit his famous home run in the '75 World Series. Was he setting up another pitch? Ask Whitey Ford which hitters he had the hardest time with, or how he changed his pitching as he approached the end of his career. I wish the interview asked questions like that and got out of the way of the answer.

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Not Funny, Lots of Swearing

Revisado: 04-16-11

This book was a disappointment. There was a lot of swearing in the place of pithy writing I have come to expect from the Daily Show.

I would have rather watched old Daily Shows on YouTube than listen to this audiobook.

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