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Sto caricando le informazioni... Waterloo Diamonds (edizione 1995)di Richard Panek
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"Richard Panek spent nearly a year inside a peculiarly American enterprise in a peculiarly American setting - the minor league baseball franchise of a midwestern town. Through a powerful, lyrical, funny, and true account of the Diamonds' fight to survive in the struggling city of Waterloo, Iowa, this book explores the broad social and economic changes in America over the past decade and the past century." "For one crucial - and, as it turned out, climactic - year in Waterloo's long history with baseball, Richard Panek lived along the Diamonds and their fans, traveling to games throughout the midwest, attending town meetings where the team's fate was passionately debated, talking with players and politicians, coaches and team owners. As the young Diamonds players struggled on the field - some hoping to rise to the big leagues, others seeing their dreams vanish forever - a larger struggle emerged in Waterloo: a battle for the city's future, fought on the fading playgrounds of its past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book is almost entirely about how the Diamonds died. It's a portrait of the owners, the team officers, and the city slowing coming to realize that the team was no longer viable, and of the efforts of a large number of people to stave off what was perhaps inevitable. It's also an exploration of the causes of that death. Waterloo Diamonds is a wonderful, if sad, book, and its great strength is its sympathetic portraits of the principal characters. They didn't all agree, and their differences are the drama. Excellent book; if you can find a copy I highly recommend it.
I originally reviewed this book several years ago, on A Fan's Guide to the Midwest League. I've also republished the review on a dabbler's journal. ( )