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Summary: Must Read if you love Boomer
Review: I read this book and was very impressed with the coherence and self-effacing tone of this book. Great read for any baseball fan. Don't know why he was fined $...for this book unless Brian Cashman can't handle the truth.
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Summary: BOOMER BELLOWS
Review: I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK BY DAVID WELLS. SOMETIMES CRUDE, FUNNY, SAD, HONEST, AND GROSS. HE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS DESCRIBING IN DETAIL HIS LIFE AND CAREER. HIS LANGUAGE LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED AT TIMES, BUT OVERALL THIS IS A VERY ENTERTAINING BOOK. HIS INSIGHT AND OPINIONS ARE VERY CANDID AND CONTROVERSIAL. I THINK HE NEEDS TO BE IN REHAB FOR ALCOHOL AND FOOT IN MOUTH ADDICTION. BUT STILL VERY WORTH READING. HE IS NOT A BAD GUY BUT JUST HUMAN AND VERY OUT SPOKEN. TURN IT DOWN A BIT BOOMER.
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Summary: A homerun (even though he's a pitcher)!
Review: I was interested in David Wells' life. This book satisfied that. To my astonishment, it is incredibly well-written, funny and insightful. The stories and revellations are great. Best baseball player's book I've read in years. Superior on all accounts to the recent David Cone book.
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Summary: A homerun (even though he's a pitcher)!
Review: I was interested in David Wells' life. This book satisfied that. To my astonishment, it is incredibly well-written, funny and insightful. The stories and revellations are great. Best baseball player's book I've read in years. Superior on all accounts to the recent David Cone book.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I'd given Wells more Props if He hadn't backed away from How He truly felt.this Book gives a inside Glimpse into the Baddest Baseball Team&it's Players.David Wells is just what Sports needs&any form of Entertainment because to many Folks are standing in front of the Camera Saying what they think other people want to hear as to being themselves&I give Wells Props for that.I don't always agree with Him but I respect Him for calling the Game like He sees it.I just wish He would have stayed within the Count He was Bringing off the Mound.
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Summary: Don't believe the hype
Review: I'm not sure why David Wells was slapped with a six-figure fine over this book. Most of the "controversy" appears to be caused by out-of-context quotes randomly selected by the press. The supposed negative statements about teammates Mike Mussina and Roger Clemens are spoken in the larger context of praising their baseball skills. The much-criticized "25 to 40 percent" statistic of ballplayers who use illegal steroids and performance-enhancing drugs ("10 to 25%" is the number in the edited book) is part of an enlightening discussion of how Jose Canseco went from being a minor-league toothpick, to a tree trunk with 462 career home runs (and a book deal of his own).Anyway, this book is just plain funny. Most sports biographies are written by sportswriters: half of them by Dick Schaap, half by Peter Golenbock, and Catfish Hunter for some reason chose Armen Keteyian. Wells goes with comedy writer Chris Kreski, best known for William Shatner's non-fiction epics, and "Growing Up Brady". Kreski's also a lifelong Mets fan, which makes the book easier for me to read, certainly. His ability to recap baseball games is only adequate -- he makes some minor factual errors, misspells some of the player names Wells dictated into the tape recorder, and gives Wells an impossibly specific memory about old games ("Two hours and forty-eight minutes later, 49,328 screaming fans watched me ...") -- but gives Boomer plenty of jokes and cutting insights into the many peaks and valleys of his career. Wells decries the corporate naming of Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, saying that to him, it'll always be the Jack Murphy Stadium of his youth. Which is a wonderful sentiment... and wrong, since it was actually called San Diego Stadium until Wells was 17. Boomer doesn't use the space to get on a soapbox and preach about baseball. No diatribes about interleague play, or the wild card. Wells is more interested in topless girls in the stands during spring training. He's clearly having too much fun in the major leagues to worry about salary caps and the fate of small market teams. Who would you rather read, Wells meeting Metallica's Lars Ulrich and describing Joe Torre's shock at AC/DC lyrics, or Whitey Herzog's whining about salary arbitration. For a quick spring-training read, it's hard to get more entertaining than "Perfect I'm Not". If nothing else, hopefully Boomer will get his penalty money back in additional sales. And then lose twice to the Mets this summer.
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Summary: Really fun
Review: liked it a lot - very funny and a lot of good baseball stuff about the Yankees, and about what it's like to live as a major leaguer.
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Summary: Good book
Review: Not a bad book. All the hype was a little too much. Lives a crazy life. As for the Red Sox fan before, stop your bull. The curse lives on beanhead.
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Summary: Alls Wells that ends Wells
Review: Other than to satisfy some need for self-gratification, why was this book written? At best David Wells is an above average pitcher with some moments of brilliance with what was otherwise mediocre pitching ability. He's not Gibson, Carlton, Seaver or even Jerry Koosman. These are pitchers who won on the basis of their abilities to throw full, consistent games. Wells had the good fortune to be in lineups that could stake him 3-4-5 runs a game. How can you not win with O'Neil or Jeter on your team? Maybe he expected we'd be enthralled by his behavior or exposes of player behavior. The original, Ball Four does it better. His antics pale next to the original, Mantle, Maris and Martin. Save yourself the money, borrow it at the library.
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Summary: Why a book?
Review: Other than to satisfy some need for self-gratification, why was this book written? At best David Wells is an above average pitcher with some moments of brilliance with what was otherwise mediocre pitching ability. He's not Gibson, Carlton, Seaver or even Jerry Koosman. These are pitchers who won on the basis of their abilities to throw full, consistent games. Wells had the good fortune to be in lineups that could stake him 3-4-5 runs a game. How can you not win with O'Neil or Jeter on your team? Maybe he expected we'd be enthralled by his behavior or exposes of player behavior. The original, Ball Four does it better. His antics pale next to the original, Mantle, Maris and Martin. Save yourself the money, borrow it at the library.
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