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A carregar... The Bronx Zoo (1979)por Sparky Lyle
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A unique insiders look at one of the most famous teams in history, the 1978 New York Yankees in the midst of their epic chase (and eventual defeat) of the Boston Red Sox. Sparky Lyle's day-by-day account is too personal and too concerned with his own struggles with both his pitching and upper management to spend much time dissecting the inner workings of the team, but we get probably the clearest look at a pennant race as told by one of its participants that we're ever likely to get. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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This bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After being voted the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner, Sparky Lyle was rewarded for his efforts by being benched. The Yankees, a leader of free agency, signed Goose Gossage as their closer. Things only went downhill from there and the 1978 season turned out to be one of controversy, firings, fights and acrimony. In short, it was a zoo. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Sparky's book was fun at the time, and I absorbed it like it was Coke Classic. It was amazing to get a behind the scenes look at my favorite team. I wasn't mentally developed enough then to see how absolutely ridiculous this book was. I've reread it twice since, once in my 20s, and then again when I turned 50. What I found as I grew older was a book about a bunch of spoiled kids, getting paid a lot of money to play a game that I love. Now the book just basically pisses me off. I guess because I put so much faith and love and the last days of my childhood into such screwy bunch of overgrown adolescents. Well, I've gotten off track here. I'm supposed to be reviewing the book. OK. It's a good read for baseball fans in general. Sparky's whining gets old pretty quick, but he does say a lot of funny things. It was nice to get a relief pitcher's perspective of the games. Already knew that Reggie was a dick, but it was fun seeing how much of a dick he actually was. The best part of the book was seeing Guidry having one of the greatest years for a pitcher ever. A much better book for Yankee fans is Guidry's "Gator". Oh, also, "Driving Mr. Yogi". ( )