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Clearing the Bases
Clearing the Bases
Author: Mike Schmidt, Glen Waggoner
Juiced players, monster salaries, sham records, and a Hall of Famer's search for the soul of baseball.  An evaluation of the state of professional baseball takes a look at the game's decline from national pastime to national punch line, calling on players, fans, and owners to make things right with what has gone wrong with the game.
ISBN-13: 9780060854997
ISBN-10: 0060854995
Publication Date: 3/1/2006
Pages: 256
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 2
I should start this review with the note that as a child I loved Mike Schmidt. It is why I chose to pick this book up at the library after being on the wish list here. It is about 200 pages. Seriously it could have been knocked down to about 75. He repeats himself continually. To the point where some how you think you may have turned the pages backward rather than forward. The material is good. His insights on how baseball has changed, good. But there must be ways to say this without repeating oneself. I am glad I read it, it was informative and thought provoking, but it grew tiresome with the repetitous text. Would love to have loved it, but then as the book says, baseball has changed...
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