It Takes More Than Balls: The Savvy Girls' Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball
by Deidre Silva, Jackie Koney
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Author: Deidre Silva, Jackie KoneyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 1602396310
Number of pages: 265
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Book Review: For novices and baseball data freaks alike
Summary: 5 Stars
Reading Deirdre Silva & Jackie Koney's "It Takes More Than Balls" is like sitting down at an evening barbeque and having a great conversation with two new friends. Oh, and we are all drinking gimlets.
Deirdre and Jackie have a wonderful loving relationship with baseball that comes through loud and clear in their witty, well written, and more than occasionally acerbic prose. (I did say that we were drinking gimlets...) But the sarcasm doesn't detract from the lovingly presented history of baseball that is full of anecdotes and insider information.
Bottom line: there is just enough data to keep the information collector baseball fans in your house happy, but plenty of great stories about baseball's many characters to keep the rest of us fair weather fans reading this fantastic book late into the night.
Summary of It Takes More Than Balls: The Savvy Girls' Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball
A brilliant analysis of the game of baseball from two women who think everyone should be a baseball fan.For years, Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney figured that men simply knew more about baseball than they did. They tried to reconcile their love of baseball with their second-class fan status, but they finally realized that not getting in a tizzy over the 1952 World Series didn't mean that they weren't "real" fans. As loyal-but not insane or stat-obsessed-spectators, they simply had a different perspective. In It Takes More Than Balls they share their brand of baseball passion with lifelong fans and the "baseball curious" of either gender. Offering anecdotes and gossip from the ballpark, the book also explains the nuances of today's game that will help readers enjoy their next (or first) baseball outing. 20 b/w illustrations.
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