Mike Sowell
Autor de The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920
Sobre El Autor
Mike Sowell is a former sportswriter and journalism professor at Oklahoma State University. He has also written One Pitch Away: The Players' Stories of the 1986 League Championships and World Series and July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty. He now lives in Tulsa, mostrar más Oklahoma. mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Oklahoma State University
Obras de Mike Sowell
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 207
- Popularidad
- #106,920
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 10
On the plus side:
• I learned the details about this tragedy, which ultimately led to mandatory use of batting helmets many years later
• It was interesting comparing modern day baseball to 1920’s baseball, where a player might get a “ground rule” double because his ball hit a policeman’s horse or a game getting called due to darkness or parents handing small children onto the field to shake Babe Ruth’s hand after a home run or fans being charged with petty larceny for keeping balls hit into the stands
On the minus side:
• Too much detail for my taste, including blow by blow accounts of many individual games
• Numerous formatting issues, such as spelling errors, inconsistent use of quotation marks, and misplaced hyphens in the e-book
• It lacked a personal connection to the players; instead, it was a straight-forward narrative telling what happened first, second, third, etc. I guess I just didn’t care for the style of the author, which is an individual taste.
Recommended to those who enjoy detailed stories of the history of baseball.… (más)