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I’m listening to Yogi by Jon Pessah, read by Oliver Wyman, the recent biography of the baseball great (who else?). This has been on my wishlist since I read a review and I’d rather have read it, but it only finally showed up in one of my libraries and only in audio.
Unfortunately, this would be a better read for me. At over 20 hours, it’s too long for a baseball bio and there’s lots of padding. Reading, I could have skipped the account of D-Day, just as one example. And part of what makes good baseball books good is their perspective of the zeitgeist and this is shallow. The prose is pretty dire. But I always like to read a baseball book during spring training and this is entertaining enough for listening to in bed, mostly because Yogi, who doesn’t like him? But it’s a disappointment overall.
Time to go pour myself some Yoo-hoo.
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