i'm not reading all trash on purpose (awol), but i got another loser and it took me a little while to realize it was lame. i promise i'm reading something good, it's just long and thus a bit heavy to take back and forth every day.
the kid who batted 1.000
-troon mcallister
i've read good baseball books. this isn't one. funny, entertaining, but it just has this sheen of poorly written crudeness over it. most of the characters are stereotypes, charicatures, or exaggerations. i mean, this is a book where the minnesota twins have been sold and play in iowa. some other clubs have been moved around. the author thinks it's clever to put famous baseball quotes into the narrative by having his roughly sketched characters say them. famous wit loses a lot when it's divorced from the actual person who said it; the reason it's famous is because of the legend of that individual, not just the words themselves. baseball has a grand tradition, and i'm not sure the way to invoke that is to cherry pick one liners and recast them in a new historical context that only exists in your work of fiction.
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