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Summary: Review for A False Spring
Review: The book was a great one. I'm not a baseball fan but I really enjoined this book. It's about a man and his career as a brilliant pither. He was great, but as time pasted he had lost it all, his talent and his career. Pat Jordan really puts his mind and heart into this book. I described his career very well. I believe this is one of the best books I've ever read and the book should get a lot of attention from readers.
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Summary: All Time Classic
Review: This is easily one of best books about baseball (amoung other things) ever written. It's also a first rate work of literature that easily bares comparison to a book by J.D. Salinger you may have heard of though it owes absolutely nothing to Salinger's famed tale stylistically. Phenomenally evocative, with the kind of dead-on, grabs-you-from-the-get-go-and-never-lets-go story telling only the best of the best manage (if they're lucky!). Whatever Mr. Jorden may think, the experiences he recalls here are clearly the ones that enabled him to find his true gifts and tell a story I suspect may be all too familare to plenty of other hapless rookies but which no one else has even come close to telling so perfectly.
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Summary: HE PLAYED THE GAME
Review: Those of us who are profesional sportswriters spend a lot of time in press boxes with other writers who criticize what they see on the field, but either never played the game or never played it well. "The Suitors of Spring" is brilliantly written by Pat Jordan, who did play the game. It also brings to mind some of the best sports books ever. "Ball Four's" Jim Bouton played the game. "North Dallas Forty's" Peter Gent played the game.Having stood on the mound, facing down a hitter with the bases loaded, the crowd yelling, the opposition hurling insults, your future on the line and the hair standing up on the back of his neck, is an experience known by few. Jordan knows it. Here he writes about pitchers, his specialty. He writes about superstars like Tom Seaver, playboys like Bo Belinsky, hardthrowing drunks like Steve Dalkowski, 6-6 lefties who never lived up their potential, like Sam McDowell, and prep phenoms from his home state of Connecticut who met the same fate as the author. Jordan's talent is not one that can be learned in a literary class. He is of the school of hard knoocks, rough hewn, real, human. Bravo, Pat. STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
STWRITES@AOL.COM
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Summary: HE PLAYED THE GAME
Review: Those of us who are profesional sportswriters spend a lot of time in press boxes with other writers who criticize what they see on the field, but either never played the game or never played it well. "The Suitors of Spring" is brilliantly written by Pat Jordan, who did play the game. It also brings to mind some of the best sports books ever. "Ball Four's" Jim Bouton played the game. "North Dallas Forty's" Peter Gent played the game. Having stood on the mound, facing down a hitter with the bases loaded, the crowd yelling, the opposition hurling insults, your future on the line and the hair standing up on the back of his neck, is an experience known by few. Jordan knows it. Here he writes about pitchers, his specialty. He writes about superstars like Tom Seaver, playboys like Bo Belinsky, hardthrowing drunks like Steve Dalkowski, 6-6 lefties who never lived up their potential, like Sam McDowell, and prep phenoms from his home state of Connecticut who met the same fate as the author. Jordan's talent is not one that can be learned in a literary class. He is of the school of hard knoocks, rough hewn, real, human. Bravo, Pat. STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
STWRITES@AOL.COM
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