Shut Out by Howard Bryant Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Shut Out
Book Review: Shame on you, Boston..The CIty and the Red Sox
Summary: 5 Stars
If Howard Bryant?s book, ?Shut Out: Race and Baseball in Boston? were simply about the failure of the Boston Red Sox to integrate their team, it would have served a great purpose. This book not only creates in painstaking detail but also painful scenarios that have affected the life of not only the Red Sox fandom but also citizens of this misunderstood city.Boston. Liberal? Perhaps. Tom Yawkey and the Red Sox. Racists? Perhaps. Bryant makes no judgement but presents the stories of many who have passed though Boston?s corridors of school systems, judicial systems and sports teams. The sum total are a damning and deserving indictment of a city slow to respond to equality but quick to jump to persecution of minorities.
The failure of the Red Sox to integrate and the lack of comfort felt by athletes playing and sometimes living in the Cradle of Liberty is painful and sad but true. This book is well written, doesn?t waste words and doesn?t let a clearly emotion inducing story shade the author?s opinions.
This book should serve as a textbook at high schools and colleges who want to bring a sense of history along with a primer of how journalism should be undertaken.
Shame on you Boston. The City and the Sox.
Book Review: A Must Read..
Summary: 5 Stars
No student of racial history and hostility should pass up this book. Brave and forthright.Book Review: Very Timely Book
Summary: 5 Stars
this Book unfolds a Not so Hidden Ugly Case of Racism.this book brings so many things to life about the Red Sox's.I think this Book also Explains one of the Reasons why they have been Cursed so Long from Winning it all.there has to be A Omen that still haunts them for how they have Treated there Black Athletes through the Years.Bill Russell Alone should have the City Named Half in His Name to me.this Book was very well written&on time.Book Review: A Hard Look
Summary: 4 Stars
Howard Bryant combines the research skills of a first-rate journalist with the eyes and ears of a skilled novelist to tell the sad story of institutional racism and the Red Sox. This is a book that is not limited to looking at just sports, though, he captures the mood of the city and its troubled times, often beautifully weaving in colorful anecdotes concerned with busing, the controversial Charles Stuart murder case, the prejudices of the media and the bottom line of big business.He raises some fascinating points: Ted Williams paid a verbal tribute to the Negro Leagues when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Willie Mays still regrets that he and Jackie Robinson were never able to hit in a lineup with Teddy Ballgame at Fenway and Celtics superstar Bill Russell would often drive Red Sox utilityman Pumpsie Green (the first black to play for the Sox) around Boston, making acid comments about a city that found it so hard to accept African Americans.
This is a nicely done piece of writing. Give it a chance.
Book Review: A Hard Look
Summary: 4 Stars
Howard Bryant combines the research skills of a first-rate journalist with the eyes and ears of a skilled novelist to tell the sad story of institutional racism and the Red Sox. This is a book that is not limited to looking at just sports, though, he captures the mood of the city and its troubled times, often beautifully weaving in colorful anecdotes concerned with busing, the controversial Charles Stuart murder case, the prejudices of the media and the bottom line of big business.He raises some fascinating points: Ted Williams paid a verbal tribute to the Negro Leagues when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Willie Mays still regrets that he and Jackie Robinson were never able to hit in a lineup with Teddy Ballgame at Fenway and Celtics superstar Bill Russell would often drive Red Sox utilityman Pumpsie Green (the first black to play for the Sox) around Boston, making acid comments about a city that found it so hard to accept African Americans.
This is a nicely done piece of writing. Give it a chance.