You're Missin' a Great Game: From Casey to Ozzie, the Magic of Baseball and How to Get It Back
by Whitey Herzog, Jonathan Pitts
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Author: Jonathan Pitts, Whitey HerzogEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN: 1416552057
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: It's like sitting around the hot stove with a genius.
Summary: 5 Stars
For you baseball lovers, and folks who just flat-out love a great character, Whitey Herzog's voice is the exact kind we need in baseball today: blunt, honest, brilliant, funny, and above all, creative and intelligent. This book is so funny, and so off-the-cuff, with so many rip-roaring stories about George Brett and Gussie Busch and Nolan Ryan, you forget at times you're listening to a genius who knows his game better than anybody else and who's offering a definite plan that addresses many of the ills that still plague the game. This man has seen baseball from top to bottom, in the old days and the new, and sees how it all bridges together. But Whitey's tone, by far, is the best thing in "You're Missing A Great Game." Some sports books clean up the language, but this SOUNDS like the White Rat -- rough, funny, and in-your-face . It's like a long, funny visit with a Twain character. I learned not to get too swept up in the blind hysteria of 1998, or to have that Bud Selig, "everything's-great" enthusiasm, but to have a realistic optimism based on the inside facts. This book is an education about baseball, but you'll have a good time getting it. It reminded me of the best teachers I ever had. You'll end up wishing you could sit down for a cold one with the author. There's nobody out there talkin' baseball like Whitey.
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