Tim Wendel
Autore di Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball--and America--Forever
Sull'Autore
Tim Wendel is the author of nine books, including the highly acclaimed High Heat. A founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, and GQ. He is a writer in residence at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Virginia.
Opere di Tim Wendel
High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time (2010) 60 copie
The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport (2003) 38 copie
Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time (2014) 21 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wendel, Tim
- Data di nascita
- 1956
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lockport, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Vienna, Virginia, USA - Istruzione
- Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Syracuse University (BA|Magazine Journalism) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
columnist
teacher
music reviewer - Organizzazioni
- USA Today (Board of Contributors)
Buffalo Courier-Express (music reviewer) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Award for Teaching Excellence (John Hopkins University, 2009)
Professional Achievement Award (John Hopkins University, 2004)
Professional Achievement Award (John Hopkins University, 2010)
Walter E. Dakin Fellow
Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writing Conference
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 354
- Popolarità
- #67,648
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 40
- Lingue
- 1
I enjoyed reading anecdotes about skilled baseball players of the era, such as Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Bob Gibson, Willie Horton, Mickey Lolich, and Denny McLain. The World Series between the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals is described in just the right amount of detail. The baseball-focused segments are nicely done.
The rest is, however, a bit of a hodgepodge. Many of the events described in the book take place in seasons other than summer. The football stories, and a few about other sports, seemed “thrown in” and are not integrated into the narrative. I remain unconvinced that football supplanted baseball as the “national sport.” In my opinion, it is a regional preference. Football has been king for a long time in the south, but in the west, baseball remains extremely popular.
There is not much depth. It is more a chronicle than an analysis. As a fan of both baseball and history, I found it interesting but the theme could have been better developed.
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