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Review title: A major disappointment
Product review: The first thing you should know about this book is it's based on the 1975 season, which means that none of the umpires or players mentioned are contemporary.Beyond that, this is poorly done and unethically done at that. Late in the book, the author admits that he pretended to be sleeping in order to eavesdrop on the conversation between two umpires in a hotel room. He says he threw away drinks and pretended to be drunk so they'd talk openly in front of him.If the ethics don't bother you, consider this: how accurate are the conversations he quotes, considering he had no tape recorder and reconstructed them after the fact? Could you relate word-for-word a conversation you had with a co-worker this morning?Baseball umpires could be the subject for a great book. This isn't it.
