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great writing elevated by a great performance

Revisado: 01-05-24

If your reading this review, then this book is exactly what your hoping it will be. The level of detail of how geography and man's limitations within it to help explain where we are today was awesome. but it was even more fun as I personally enjoyed the oration performance, and thought it gave the story a bit of flair beyond simply describing terrains. Would highly recommend on all fronts

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Deep Dive for such an all encompassing book

Revisado: 11-05-22

the book overall is great. the mixture of history and context setting to help inform the reader of how we got here and how the game go evolve is a great wY to present the info. I particularly enjoy the candor from scouts that makes baseball fun but is rarely glimpsed by the public.

The only negatives I have are the tables , while thorough, can drone on for a bit and affect the cadence of the book; and the narrator, bless his heart, mispronounced a few baseball terms and names that were hard to ignore, like pronouncing Velo as "Vell-o" rather than "Vee-lo"

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Supremely entertaining

Revisado: 10-07-22

these types of "trivia" books are my favorite, so I'm probably biased, but that was easily one of the more entertaining books I've listened to. The premise overall is great, but the structure of exploring each question, the tone of address the quirkiness of humans and the richness of how the lives these "individuals" were described has this high on my list of books to revisit!

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thoroughly researched

Revisado: 08-25-22

I was really impressed with the depth of this book without getting too technical. the terminology used can be cryptic for non baseball fans but the author really balanced giving context without getting bogged down. if you watched baseball over the last decade, this book does a wonderful job of explaining the changes you've witnessed

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Great Book, Quirky Performance

Revisado: 06-03-22

So the book itself was great but I found the reading off it to be slightly strange I thought the voice was pleasant overall and not enough to prevent me from recommending this book. But some of the "impersonations" were distracting, and there were a couple mispronunciations that caught me off guard.

still a good book, definitely worth a listen

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So interesting!

Revisado: 05-13-22

Loved this book, the depth on some of the more specific quirks in English is honestly the perfect level of entertainment at certain times and this book nails it. To think I could I have studied linguistics and been able to enjoy this as a profession, I feel like I'm missing out!

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So Interesting

Revisado: 09-25-20

honestly one of the most interesting books I've read. the vignettes are so well written and it's a wonderful walk across a bunch of colors to study the effects of color through history.

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This book was amazing

Revisado: 04-10-20

I truly enjoy this book. The combination of geography, history and sociology was woven perfectly and the ability to relate the different topics into the greater picture had me hooked from beginning to end.

I would HIGHLY recommend.

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