Title: Great premise; poor execution
Product review: Being a life long Texas Rangers fan, through their ups and downs (and downs and downs and downs), I thought this book would be very interesting. It WAS interesting, but I found Shropshire's smart-aleck style of writing so annoying that I couldn't finish the book. Some of it was so smarmy and self-consciously 'witty' that I wanted to throw the book across the room. Many of the anecdotes ARE humorous, but not enough to make me recommend this book. The entire tone is like a smart-aleck sports article, which, of course, is what Shrop makes his living writing. I think part of the fault lies with the editor, because there are some good stories in here--Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog, etc. Parts of this would probably make a decent movie.
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