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Title: The Game: One Man, Nine Innings: A Love Affair With Baseball by Robert Benson ISBN: 1585421014 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 19 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 5
Summary: awesome...
Comment: the human drama plays on, even with the world's greatest baseball player and his friends....
Rating: 4
Summary: While we're at it...
Comment: Let's point out a couple other factual errors about Mr. Benson's book. First of all he claims Harry Caray's signature home run call is, "It could be, it might be, it is!"
Actually, Harry used to say, "It might be, it could be, it is!"
I'm sure this is pretty trivial, but I've heard Harry call it this way hundreds of times and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to point this out. Benson makes this mistake a few times in this book, and it's annoying.
Benson also claims to be at Wrigley Field one day in May to see a young phenom by the name of Kerry Wood face the author's favorite team the Braves. At that game, Benson and his wife and the rest of the crowd are led in a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by none other than Harry Caray.
Well, Harry died in February of 1998, and Kerry Wood didn't make his major league debut until 4/12/1998 (Easter Sunday) against the Expos.
The reason why I bring this up is because I often wondered what Harry would have said had he been alive during Wood's 20 strikeout performance against the Astros and the remarkable 1998 season that we all enjoyed as Cubs fans.
These are just a couple of annoying factual errors that I encounter in Benson's book. Other than that, I love the book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys baseball and doesn't view it as just a sport, but as a way of life.
Despite the errors mentioned above, Mr. Benson, I would love to play catch or have you hit fungoes to me anytime.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thoughtful book marred by factual errors
Comment: Although I enjoyed this book's leisurely stroll through one man's relationship with baseball, I was disturbed by some serious screwups.
First, Benson gets wrong the year Roger Maris' single season record for home runs was broken. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa pursued and passed Maris in 1998, not 1999. This is an almost unbelievable error. Only three seasons after the fact, a baseball author making this mistake is like an American historian writing about the original twelve colonies.
Six pages later we read about the famous home run hit by
"a light hitting infielder named Bobby Thomson" in 1951. Thomson was an outfielder and finished tied for fourth (with Stan Musial) in the National League in home runs that year with 32.
Since Benson's book is built on his lifelong love of the game, mistakes like this diminish our trust even if they don't make us doubt the depth of his feeling. His sincerity seems very real, and his writing is smooth, personal and appealing.
Mistakes aside, it's nice to read a baseball book by a fan who is a writer first.
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Title: 101 Secrets A Good Dad Knows by Walter Browder, Sue Ellin Browder ISBN: 1558537198 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle, Edward Koren ISBN: 0679762671 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Between the Dreaming and the Coming True: The Road Home to God by Robert Benson ISBN: 1585420883 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 25 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti by A. Bartlett Giamatti, Kenneth Robson, David Halberstam ISBN: 1565121929 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by David Catrow, Alan Katz ISBN: 0689829035 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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