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Mr. Book just finished Baseball’s Shooting Stars, by David J. Gordon.

This is a book about baseball players who had one year that was so much better than any other season of his career. It was a topic that had a lot of potential, but the execution was unsuccessful. The author followed a standard template: this one year was better than the rest of his career, talk about the stats for that year, talk about stats for other years, move on to the next player. The author was too heavy on his recitation of stats and was very weak on his narratives. There were only a few players in which the chapters on them were interesting.

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

This review has been posted at Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

Mr. Book finished reading this on September 11, 2024.