Angels' Halo Haunted: Baseball Tragedies Revisited

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Summary: it's the definitive book on baseball tragedies.
Review: If you want to find out about any of baseball's major tragedies, this is the definitive book to read. Gallagher does a splendid job of researching and writing about the many tragedies involving the Angels' organization but he also captures many of the mishaps that befallen the other clubs. The author shows empathy, sympathy and definitely shows he loves human-interest stories that grab at the heart of readers.

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Summary: Poorly-written sensationalism
Review: This book reads like a collection of National Enquirer stories. The difference: the Enquirer has writing standards that Gallagher can't come close to meeting. He's gathered disjointed tales of baseball tragedies over the years (plane crashes of Thurman Munson, Ken Hubbs, Roberto Clemente, for example) and linked them all together dubiously in this poorly-written, slothfully-researched quickie paperback. Reading this is like slowing down to look at a wreck on the highway.