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Old 04-21-2012, 02:15 PM   #1
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What a wonderful book. I am not a John Grishim fan, but the lure of baseball and the Chicago Cubs got me to take a chance.

This is a short book - you will finish it in a little over 2 hours. But you will think about it for a lot longer.

Anyone else read this book? Did you like it?
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What a wonderful book. I am not a John Grishim fan, but the lure of baseball and the Chicago Cubs got me to take a chance.

This is a short book - you will finish it in a little over 2 hours. But you will think about it for a lot longer.

Anyone else read this book? Did you like it?
I read it. It was good, but I felt very predictable.

I couldn't help thinking that it would have been much more interesting if the Pitcher wouldn't have been such a 100% a-hole. The guy was pretty easy to hate in nearly all aspects of his life - shitty abusive Father, abusive cheating husband, not even real popular with his teammates .... so hating him for his baseball actions was really only 1/2 a step away from hating everything else about him.

What if it was a basically good man who was just following the "baseball code" and his actions led to such a catastrophic end? What if one of the boy's heroes would have been his Dad, and then he would have had to reconcile those feelings against the results of that one pitch? That would have been much more emotionally complex book I think.
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Old 04-21-2012, 02:26 PM   #3
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You should be an editor! What great points.
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I don't know about being an editor - but boy do I miss Ron Santo.
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