Review of
Greatest World Series Thrillers,
by Ray Robinson
Four out of five stars
This book was
published in 1965, so the World Series events to be selected from ends there.
When selecting the greatest moments in World Series history, there is a great
deal of personal taste in the decisions. In choosing twelve games to highlight,
Robinson selects the four most obvious, when Babe Ruth “called” his shot, the
catch made by Willie Mays in the 1954 series, the home run by Bill Mazeroski
that won the 1960 series for the Pirates and the obvious choice for the best of
all time, the perfect game in 1956 by Don Larsen. All were moments of great
drama, never to be forgotten.
The writing is
a bit juvenile and overstated, even for adolescent sports fiction. For example,
when describing the actions of Pepper Martin in the 1931 series, there are the
two sentences, “No human being can halt a locomotive on the loose. And that’s
what Pepper was that afternoon.” Yet, it is an interesting and exciting look
back at some of the greatest moments in baseball history. I have watched the
video of the catch by Mays and the home run by Mazeroski many times.
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