Mr. Book just finished It’s A Beautiful Day For Baseball: The National Pastime In The 1960s, by Doug Kurkul.

This book was published in April 2024.

The book started with a long tirade about how baseball was far better in the 1960s and has gone downhill from there. The author then had a seemingly unending section of 274 player profiles. Every one of them was just a cursory look at the player and it was easy to come up with material that the author should have included but didn’t. There were also very few stats being cited other than the triple crown stats. Major events in players’ careers and baseball history get single sentence treatment.

I give this book a D.

Goodreads requires grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a D equates to 1 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

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Mr. Book finished reading this on December 20, 2024.