Title: A Lurking Disappointment
Product review: Interested in the men who played the national game in 1908, I eagerly plunged into "More Than Merkle." What I found was a book filled with syntax errors, either of the author's creation or of the publisher, the University of Nebraska Press. While most of these errors were minor, many served as great distractions from the reading of the text. The biographies of the men involved in baseball at the turn of the century really turned into nothing more than a verbal recapitulation of the statistics found in the "Baseball Encyclopedia" or "Total Baseball." Finally, the author seemed intent in finding a new villain or a new victim, or maybe even a new mystery to the ending of the 1908 National League season. Much of his argument proves to be superficial, often trivial, and sometimes just plain nonsense. On the positive side, the book does also examine the American League race of 1908, something that is often lost in the wake of the Merkle incident.
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