Title: Disorganized and disappointing
Product review: The problem with Mr. Di Salvatore's book is that it never seems to decide what it wants to be. At times, it attempts to study Ward in the context of his time--and, indeed, it spends more time on his youth in Bellefonte and his brief time at Penn State than it does with his involvement in the players' movement and his marriage to Helen Dauvray--while at other times it seems to want to break into a full-fledged novel. The chronology is equally inconsistent, and he varies between giving too little detail (e.g., the Players' League) in some areas and unconscionable amounts--there is a full section on the history of baseball that adds little or nothing to the book as a whole--in others. By failing to establish some central theme or organizing principle for the book, Mr. Di Salvatore comes perilously close to writing about nothing at all.
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