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Book Review of Clearing the Bases

Clearing the Bases
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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...