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Title: My Life in Baseball by Robin Roberts, C. Paul Rogers ISBN: 1-57243-503-8 Publisher: Triumph Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Player Who Appreciates His Place in the Game
Comment: I enjoy reading about baseball players from the 1950's since that was when I was introduced to the game. This is a straightforward account of Robin Roberts's career in baseball spent primarily with the Philadelphia Phillies in addition to cups of coffee with the Yankees in spring training of 1962, the Orioles, Astros, and Cubs. Profiles are also given to treasured teammates such as Curt Simmons, Richie Ashburn, Granny Hamner, and others. I find it interesting to read about what these players I used to collect as baseball cards are like as people. It is also refreshing to read a story of this kind without being bombarded with profanities so often found in books. Robin Roberts has a profound respect for the game that has been such a great part of his life. Roberts, like so many other players from this period, found it to be a shock when his playing days were over. He worked for an investment company, but found more happiness while coaching college baseball at South Florida. He also expresses appreciation for being blessed with a supportive wife who encouraged him while he chased his dream of a baseball career. I'm a fan of the Detroit Tigers, but Robin Roberts and his Phillies' teammates were known to me through baseball cards, and I appreciate having this book to familiarize myself with Roberts and his teammates.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mr Roberts: The Stories of a Winner!!
Comment: Ok, so old-timers will recognize my heading as a take off on the 50's Sport magazine article on Robin Roberts which in turn played off the hit 50's Broadway play...Mr. Roberts.
Robin Roberts is in the Baseball Hall of Fame because he was a winner.
His 286 lifetime wins attest to the fact. He is more than statistics however and has a reputation as one of the most intelligent, honorable and classy guys the game has produced.
In 18 years of Big Leage pitching during the Golden Age of Baseball (the postwar 40's,50's and 60's), Roberts competed against many of the best the game has produced; Mays, Aaron, Robinson, Banks, Musial, Matthews, Kiner...the list goes on and on.
He was a pitcher with the heart of an infielder. He would have pitched every day had they let him. And they almost did.
He pitched more innings than anyone during the 50's. Blessed with a low, easy delivery that put less strain on his arm and shoulder than most, he started every 4th day for years and in his heyday would relieve 6 to 10 times a season as well. All the innings eventually caught up with him but he made adjustments later in his career and kept pitching, and pitching well, for 18 seasons.
Roberts and his very able co-author Paul Rogers, a twosome that combined successfully in 1995 to produce the popular story of the "Philadelphia Whiz Kids and the Pennant of 1950", have again relied on Roberts near photographic memory and Rogers research and narrative talents, to create a book that chronicles Roberts career in baseball.
Roberts recollections are legendary among baseball afficionadoes and this book makes them available to the masses. And, what great stories they are! Stories about regular season games and players, All-Star games, off-season barnstorming games, a trip of major leagers to Japan and more. The book reads like a session around the Hot Stove with your favorite Big League ballplayer.
True to his reputation, and unlike many sports books, Roberts does not use his book to settle old scores, establish vendettas or tell tales out of school. It is at once a refreshing and pleasant aproach. Roberts chapter on the development of the Players Association and the selection of Marvin Miller as it's Executive Secretary is the closest he comes to "score-settling" and it is really more an effort to "set the record straight" than the former.
As a matter of fact, Roberts class shows throughout the book. He admits that he was wrong to push for the second All-Star game in the late 50's even though it was for the right reasons (to fund the underfunded player pension plan).
This is a book to enjoy! It is not written to stir controversy but to celebrate the joy of being able to play a "...kids game and get paid for it...". Roberts love for the game past and present shows in every page and every story. Like the author, it is a "keeper".
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Title: The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant (Baseball in America Series) by Robin Roberts, C. Paul Rogers III, Pat Williams ISBN: 1566397901 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus (Writing Baseball (Hardcover)) by John Theodore, Ira Berkow ISBN: 0809324504 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: My Time At Bat by Chuck Hinton ISBN: 1562290037 Publisher: Christian Living Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship by Mark Gauvreau Judge ISBN: 1893554708 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus, Gerald Early ISBN: 0271023333 Publisher: Keystone Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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