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Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Thomas Oliphant
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![]() | | 1. | best book of the season,.... all star | | July 10, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | you don't even have to love baseball. when you have a writer who is a
poet, if you want to understand what it was like,then, now...
a true
blessing |
![]() | | 2. | Loved IT! | | June 22, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | Never really read much about baseball, but this book is accessible to the
layman as it is satisfying to the expert. I have read this columnists
writing before, but I was amazed and touched at this heartwarming look at... read full review |
![]() | | 3. | Good on its own terms | | (el paso, tx) July 25, 2005 - 4.0/5 stars | | The problem with the memior as a form is that you are judging the person,
more often than not, rather than the actualy content of the book. So, that
being said, this book works as any book on a good memory does, when... read full review |
![]() | | 4. | This book has been written at least a million times already. | | (New York, NY USA) July 21, 2005 - 2.0/5 stars | | I can draw some small comfort from the fact that within 20 years or so,
everyone who grew up rooting for the old Brooklyn Dodgers will have died,
and only about 90% of them will have written an over-wrought... read full review |
![]() | | 5. | Edited? I don't think that they even tried to edit this book. | | (Atlanta, GA) July 22, 2005 - 1.0/5 stars | | I tossed it out after the first 25 pages because of the poor editing. The
author - who takes resonsibility for the publication of his work - should
be ashamed. |
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