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Review title: Baseball complete...a complete waste of your time.
Product review: This book was written in 1951, and it more than shows. I grew up in San Francisco in the mid-60's, and I enjoyed Russ Hodges' radio play-by-play for years. Yet I never recall him speaking on the airwaves in the same verbage as in this book.It's loaded with the most archaic baseball phrases - many that I suspect were out-of-fashion even when the book was written. Slabster/chucker (pitcher), willow (bat), stickman (batter), outer garden (outfield) and other oddities are used throughout.Alliteration also abounds in the very scattershot prose. Most "stories" are just a paragraph in length, maybe two. Many baseball books would space all these tidbits apart for clarity, but this book just hops from one thing to another with little cohesion.A period piece at best, and I'd avoid this one.
