Some entertaining stories and enlightening details about life in the minor leagues. However, the book is too long, gets repetitive in stories, phraseology, and tone, and suffers from sloppy editing.
This is an excellent collection of minor league perspectives: players, managers, umpires, announcers, and even turf managers. It might be skewed a bit; those agreeing to be part of the story may be those inclined toward the better attitudes in the clubhouse, but it's still enlightening and entertaining.
A couple of things that were particularly noteworthy to me were: 1) I owe Dan Johnson an apology for being a bad fan (I thought his attitude was way too publicly negative with Durham a couple of years ago without having a clue what he was going through); 2), Charlie Montoyo sounds like just as wonderful a human being as I've always imagined him to be (call him up, Tampa!), and 3) every book written would be improved by a description of the events surrounding "Game 162" on September 28, 2011 (even, or especially, technical manuals, Civil War histories, and trashy romances.)
This is an excellent collection of minor league perspectives: players, managers, umpires, announcers, and even turf managers. It might be skewed a bit; those agreeing to be part of the story may be those inclined toward the better attitudes in the clubhouse, but it's still enlightening and entertaining.
A couple of things that were particularly noteworthy to me were: 1) I owe Dan Johnson an apology for being a bad fan (I thought his attitude was way too publicly negative with Durham a couple of years ago without having a clue what he was going through); 2), Charlie Montoyo sounds like just as wonderful a human being as I've always imagined him to be (call him up, Tampa!), and 3) every book written would be improved by a description of the events surrounding "Game 162" on September 28, 2011 (even, or especially, technical manuals, Civil War histories, and trashy romances.)
