Mr. Book just finished They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, And The Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen, by Jason Turnbow.
This was an excellent look at the 1981 Dodgers. The book covered the seasons leading up to their championship season, with plenty of background and good stories about each player. The book did a very good job covering the strike that the owners instigated. There was also great coverage of game by game of the entire postseason.
I give this book an A+ and inducted it into the Hall of Fame.
Goodreads requires grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A+ equates to 5 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 my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews, and Goodreads.
Mr. Book finished reading this on June 23, 2019. He finished rereading it on October 26, 2024.