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Ladataan... Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to MeTekijä: Phillip Hoose
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This was one of those books I received as a gift and shortly there after got packed in a box as I was moving. A number of years later now I finally got around to reading it and it was a flash back in two ways. First being the story that Hoose wrote about Don Larson and growing up on the west side of Indianapolis as a kid. He attended Speedway High School where my mother was a teacher at the same time. Not sure if he was one of her students but she taught many of the advance English courses so there was always a chance Hoose was one of her students. I met Don Larson at a Minor League 'A' game when he was there to sign autographs and make an appearance with the Salem-Kaiser (Oregon) Volcano's in the late 1990s. My Dad being a big Yankee Fan, I had Larson sign a photocard for him as a Father's Day gift. On another note, he finished this book when I was just going back into the National Guard and having just retired myself from the Guard, it put into perspective the past 18 years but even further back to my days of growing up in Indiana and playing youth sports. The book is well written and easy to read in a few days, following along that 1956 season and then to one of the best World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. ( ) This is the most perfect book about baseball ever written. It chronicles the tale of young Phillip Hoose, just moved to the new town of Speedway, Indiana. He doesn't know how to play baseball, or even like the sport too much, but it's his key to social acceptance and he throws himself into learning with a heroic dedication and commitment. Hoose's improvement as a player is slow, to the say the least, but he has an ace up his sleeve: his cousin (once removed) is Yankees pitcher Don Larsen. During the 1956 season, as Mickey Mantle chases the Babe's record and some of the best baseball is played by one of the greatest teams ever assembled (and I say that, forgive me, as a Red Sox fan), Hoose hilariously and endearingly navigates the fourth and fifth grades, playground baseball, and even a stint on the Speedway Giant's Little League team. Somewhere in there, he meets the Yankees, collects memorabilia (and the social cache to go with it), becomes the town's "walking encyclopedia' of baseball and even has a gut-busting foray into cigarette smoking. I can tell you all of that and I haven't spoiled anything for you, believe me. Hoose's narrative style, will immediately resonate with anyone who loves "A Christmas Story" or the book its based on, "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash." Young Hoose uses some of the best cliches from the exuberant era of 1950s sports journalism, pitching them relentlessly at the reader with gleeful abandon and witty timing. You will read this smiling, but that's only when you're not laughing or maybe a tad choked up. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
A nostalgic memoir of coming of age and baseball. It describes the author's move to Indiana and the role of baseball in his life, especially after he discovers that his cousin, the legendary Don Larsen, is a pitcher for the New York Yankees. This volume is published on the fiftieth anniversary of Larsen's 1956 perfect game -- the only perfect game pitched in World Series history. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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