Mr. Book just finished One More For The White Rat: The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals Chase The Pennant, by Doug Feldmann.
This book will be published on April 1, 2025.
This was a very good look at the 1987 Cardinals, who won their third National League pennant in six seasons before losing to the Twins in the World Series. The book thoroughly covered the 1987 Cardinals season, with all key moments and series, along with their race in the NL East against the Mets. The book then provided full coverage of the postseason—both their NLCS win against the Giants and World Series loss.
Where the book fell short was in backgrounds about players and didn’t have much on the rest of baseball, other than the Mets.
I give this book a B+. It is the eighth book that I have read by this author, with him getting 3 A’s, 2 B+’s and 3 B’s.
Goodreads requires grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a B+ equates to 4 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 Mr. Book’s Book Reviews
Mr. Book finished reading this on December 7, 2024.
