Review of
I Love This Game! My Life and Baseball,
by Kirby Puckett ISBN 0060177101
Five out of five stars
Autobiography without the dirt
There is no
question that Kirby Puckett was one of the best baseball players of his
generation and deserves his post in the Hall of Fame. Even though his career
was cut short due to blindness in one eye, so his numbers will at first glance
appear to be weak. This book is an autobiography written while he was still in
his prime, before all of the subsequent difficulties emerged.
The story is about
his life in and out of baseball, mostly in. It is written with some level of humility,
but not overly so. He recounts many incidents in his baseball life, including
his close relationships with others in baseball. Puckett was one of the few
modern players that spent his entire career with one team, the Minnesota Twins.
Therefore, he had a great deal of time to build up the reciprocal loyalty
between a player and the team fan base.
If you are a
fan of baseball in general and the Minnesota Twins in particular, you will
enjoy this book. It is generally about baseball only, there is none of the
dirty laundry and over-the-top self-serving rhetoric that is so common in the
modern books written about sports figures.
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