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Summary: Good -- But Others Are Better
Review: Has anyone else read _Off Base_ by Andrew Torrez? I think it has the wit and writing style of George Will, but also a fresh perspective that made me open my eyes and realize that a lot of what Will has to say has been said before.I guess that makes Will a "baseball conservative" as well as a political conservative.
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Summary: George popped up this bunt into a double play!
Review: I cherished Men At Work. I further fostered my love of the game with his classic tale. Bunts has a few interesting tales and tidbits but overall fails to live up to the predecessor. Did he write this one weekend while on vacation? Or are these his scraps left over from Men At Work?
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Summary: Savor the grand game with a fellow fan
Review: I could have been put off by the fact that Will focuses on the Cubs and Orioles, or that he is very opioniated about certain people; but in the end I enjoyed the book for what it is, a celebration of baseball. The book follows the travails of Will's life like a long season and you are reminded why you fell in love with the game in the first place.
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Summary: A Huge Disappointment
Review: I usually stay away from baseball books written by non sports people(politicians, college professors, entertainers, etc.), but I grabbed Will's book right off the shelf because it's a new baseball book(naturally!) and his previous book, "Men At Work" was so good. Alas, Will could not keep his political bent from infusing into his writing style, which was way too intellectual, and his feelings about the game(the DH has ruined the tradition of baseball!). At the end I learned 3 things: being a Cubs fan means suffering, the Baltimore Orioles are the greatest franchise in baseball history, and George Steinbrenner is an anathema to the game. Unfortunately, a series of pieces written at various times becomes repetitious and Will often mentions the same thing over and over. It shouldn't be a struggle to read a baseball book and I found myself anticipating the end of this book.
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Summary: A Must read for any true baseball fan.
Review: If for whatever reason you did not enjoy this book I truly feel sorry for you; for then you are not a baseball fan. R
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Summary: Bunts is a great book about baseball.
Review: In a non-Orwellian sense, Bunts is a homer. Will combines his great writing skills with his love and knowledge of the game in his second book about baseball. If you enjoyed his first, Men At Work, you will undoubtedly enjoy Bunts. Bunts, Will's description of small but useful things, is a collection of eighty-one essays spanning the years 1974-1997. All fans, from the most casual to the most serious, will find something in it for them. The broad range of baseball topics includes: history, players, managers, owners, broadcasters, umpires, fans, economics, and techniques. Will also decribes his personal love affair with the game from his childhood and annual visits to Wrigley Field to his present affiliation with the Baltimore Orioles. Perhaps the most salient feature of this book about baseball is that it is written by one of its biggest fans and most serious students. I heartily recommend this book.
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Summary: A great book about the best sport.
Review: Is there a better sport than baseball? I submit not. It is a sport that is as old as America (as the reader learns on page 272 of "Bunts"), and as much a part of the American experience as anything. "Bunts", a collection of George F. Will's columns about baseball over the last thirty years, is a marvelous look at baseball from the eyes of the die-hard Chicago Cubs fan. Though I care not for Will's conservative mindset, I appreciate his prose and enjoy some of his takes on baseball. Some of Will's contentions are controversial (the game is better today than ever before), some well-reasoned (the glories of 1950s baseball were not so glorious) and some out-dated (one column mocking the Braves and Yankees, baseball's worst teams according to Will, looks hopelessly out-dated since these two behemoths have won four of the last five World Series). But Will puts himself out in front and you must give him credit for speaking his mind. Incidentally, the reviewer's particular favorite column is Will's 1991 look at baseball in the Windy City- "Chicago Baseball- 'Never A Lovely So Real'" (pages 171-180) Baseball fans will enjoy.
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Summary: A great book about the best sport.
Review: Is there a better sport than baseball? I submit not. It is a sport that is as old as America (as the reader learns on page 272 of "Bunts"), and as much a part of the American experience as anything. "Bunts", a collection of George F. Will's columns about baseball over the last thirty years, is a marvelous look at baseball from the eyes of the die-hard Chicago Cubs fan. Though I care not for Will's conservative mindset, I appreciate his prose and enjoy some of his takes on baseball. Some of Will's contentions are controversial (the game is better today than ever before), some well-reasoned (the glories of 1950s baseball were not so glorious) and some out-dated (one column mocking the Braves and Yankees, baseball's worst teams according to Will, looks hopelessly out-dated since these two behemoths have won four of the last five World Series). But Will puts himself out in front and you must give him credit for speaking his mind. Incidentally, the reviewer's particular favorite column is Will's 1991 look at baseball in the Windy City- "Chicago Baseball- 'Never A Lovely So Real'" (pages 171-180) Baseball fans will enjoy.
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Summary: too "gwill" opinionated and not enough objectivity
Review: just because george says it, doesn't make it true. in my opinion george strayed from his usual objective baseball writing in this book. sorry george, this one didn't hit it out of reading rainbow park!
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Summary: Exemplary stuff
Review: My grandfather taught me never to trust a man who wears a bow-tie, but I have to give George Will credit for his deep knowledge of the sport (which never bogs down into pedantry) and - a far rarer commodity in baseball writing - his sterling prose. You don't have to agree with his sour political conservatism (which, in an impressive display of self-knowledge, he attributes to being a Cubs fan) to find this a cracking good read.
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