Title: A Huge Disappointment
Product review: I really wanted to like this book, and I expected to like it, given that the author has strong literary credentials as the book reviewer for the New York Times. Unfortunately, the book was a huge disappointment.The idea for this book was that the author would take a season off from his job and his editor would finance an account of the 1979 baseball season from a fan's perspective. What resulted, however, was little more than the journal of a neurotic, and a not very interesting neurotic at that. The author continually mentions his shyness, and this gets boring after awhile. His inability to talk to ballplayers severely handicapped this effort.The author's first publisher bailed out toward the end of the season. Seven years later he found another publisher and the book got published, but it wasn't worth the effort.
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