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Summary: Anaheim Angels World Series Champions After 42 Long Years
Review: For so long, it has been impossible to be an Angels fan. No longer. After 42 years, the Angels have done the impossible, they've won the World Series. This book gives you the background on how they got there. I highly recommend you read the compelling story of their humble, and later tragic, beginnings. You can fill the glory in later.
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Summary: Anaheim Angels World Series Champions After 42 Long Years
Review: Having been a fan of the Angels since before I was born, yes that's right Mom was pregnant with me at an Angel Game. My parent's had season tickets the first year they were in Anaheim. I have been an Angel fan all my life and season ticket holder for a good portion of my life. My husband and I have been to several years of spring training, all the way back to Palm Springs Days.I thought I knew about the Angels, boy was I wrong. This book gave me insights in areas I did not know. Thank you Ross Newhan for writing a wonderful book about my favorite team.
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Summary: And I thought I knew the Angels
Review: Having been a fan of the Angels since before I was born, yes that's right Mom was pregnant with me at an Angel Game. My parent's had season tickets the first year they were in Anaheim. I have been an Angel fan all my life and season ticket holder for a good portion of my life. My husband and I have been to several years of spring training, all the way back to Palm Springs Days. I thought I knew about the Angels, boy was I wrong. This book gave me insights in areas I did not know. Thank you Ross Newhan for writing a wonderful book about my favorite team.
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Summary: EXCELLENT READ
Review: If you are a diehard Angels fan, you will most likely love this book. It details the origin of the team back in the early 60's all the way through the '99 season. If you are just a fan of the sport and not the team, like myself, the book is just average. Ross Newhan, who has covered the team since its inception, spends a little too much time dealing with the Angels' second-class citizen stauts to the Dodgers in the L.A. area (they actaully shared Dodgers Stadium for a few years), the "curse" on the team in where talented young players constantly have injuries that either curtail or end their careers and all the bad luck that prevented owner Gene Autry from making a World Series. In reading, you would think that the Angels are a more cursed and unlucky franchise than the Red Sox or Cubs. Although I'm sure there are many long suffering Angels fans out there, even they wouldn't even compare themselves to those teams. The one true highlight of the book is the chapter on the '86 season in which the Angels came within one strike of reaching the Series. Mr. Newhan captures all the drama, tension, frustration and ultimate disappointment of the team, it's owner and fans in that fated season. The rest of the book presents mainly a pedestrian account of the team's history.
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Summary: Very enjoyable book for fans
Review: Ross Newhan is definitely an expert on the Angels and it really shows in this book. He takes you from the founding of the team through every season and important event including the 1999 season with Mo Vaughn. An inevitable theme in the book is the curse that has seemed to plague the Angels since their inception. At times this makes for depressing reading, especially in Newhan's account of the 1986 playoff game with the Red Sox when the Angels were one strike away from the World Series. Unfortunately, you can't rewrite history and have Gene Mauch leave Mike Witt in the game. This is a very enjoyable book that brings back a lot of memories (Don Aase, Dave LaRoche, Dan Ford, Bobby Bonds, etc.) but it desperately needs an index and some sort of statistical appendix.
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Summary: EXCELLENT READ
Review: THIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH THE PRICE. I FOUND IT A VERY DETAILED AND WELL WRITTEN HISTORY OF A TROUBLED FRANCHISE. THE NUMBER OF TRAGEDIES IS ALARMING. THE FRONT OFFICE BLUNDERS AND THE IMPATIENCE OF THE MANAGEMENT LED TO MUCH OF THE LACK OF SUCCESS ALSO. GENE AUTRY DESERVED MUCH BETTER THAN THE MUDDLED AND INCONSISTENT SEASONS THEY ACHIEVED. A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY ANGELS FAN. FROM ALBIE PEARSON, DADDY WAGS, AND DEAN CHANCE TO JIM EDMONDS AND TIM SALMON THIS IS A GOOD HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE ANGELS. MUST READ.
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