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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballparkdi Tom Stanton
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I enjoyed reading this book, but I am a lifelong Tigers fan, with a background similar to the author's. I can remember sulking through quite a few tough years with the Tigers and the excitement and pure joy of following them in 1984. My father and grandfathers also rooted for the Tigers, and I've seen quite a few games in the old Tiger Stadium. I suspect that I would have liked this book even if I wasn't a Tigers fan; many of the feelings and recalled memories in this book are likely to strike a familiar cord with anyone who has rooted for their home team through the years and shared that experience with those important to them. The style of the book -- short entries for each of the 81 home games that year -- make it an easy book to pick up and put down without too much committment of time. The author, a journalist, who is 39 in 1999, decides to go to all the home games during the final year of Tiger Stadium. This book is an account of that experience, and a memoir of his Polish family and his history of watching/playing baseball with his family; and his family's history; and his family's history with baseball -- and about brothers, separated & together, and about fathers & sons. It is well-written. A bit insular, old-Detroit. The 1999 Tigers seem so long ago, most (all?) of the players are gone. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances are good that if you're a baseball fan, your dad had something to do with it--and your thoughts of the sport evoke thoughts of him. If so, you will treasure The Final Season, a poignant true story about baseball and heroes, family and forgiveness, doubts and dreams, and a place that brings them all together. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, Tom Stanton lived for his Detroit Tigers. When Tiger Stadium began its 88th and final season, he vowed to attend all 81 home games in order to explore his attachment to the place where four generations of his family have shared baseball. Join him as he encounters idols, conjures decades past, and discovers the mysteries of a park where Cobb and Ruth played. Come along and sit beside Al Kaline on the dugout bench, eat popcorn with Elmore Leonard, hear Alice Cooper's confessions, soak up the warmth of Ernie Harwell, see McGwire and Ripken up close, and meet Chicken Legs Rau, Bleacher Pete, Al the Usher, and a parade of fans who are anything but ordinary. By the autumn of his odyssey, Stanton comes to realize that his anguish isn't just about the loss of a beloved ballpark but about his dad's mortality, for at the heart of this story is the love between fathers and sons--a theme that resonates with baseball fans of all ages. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Stanton pays homage to the saints whose miracles were performed there, especially the two whose exploits make them most revered among adherents of a certain age: Al Kaline and Ernie Harwell. But the overall message of this scripture is about fathers and sons, and how baseball helps them love each other. ( )