Tim Wakefield (1966–2023)
Auteur van Knuckler: My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Wakefield, Timothy Stephen
- Geboortedatum
- 1966-08-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2023-10-01
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Melbourne, Florida, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- Cancer
- Opleiding
- Florida Tech
- Beroepen
- baseball player
- Organisaties
- Boston Red Sox
Pittsburgh Pirates
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- 51
- Populariteit
- #311,767
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 3
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Okay, so I still love Wake. However....Tony Maz, not so much. I would have been less of a hater had there been fewer em dashes and one-line sentences. On the latter: it's the biggest symptom of newspaper-ish writing (as opposed to book-writing), along with hyperbole and too-conversational English in spots. But the one-line sentences kill me; we're not reading this for your reactionary opinions in the Herald! You don't need to keep us on the edge of our seats as if this were a play-by-play!
Other things: I loved reliving 1998-2007, the peak of my Sox fandom, and some of Wake's perspectives on events I knew about were great. (As others have said, it's strange how little insight the book does give; mentions of other players are pretty scarce, and I disliked that Manny, of all people, got the most ink of all of Wake's teammates. I mean, really? You could have written a whole chapter on Pedro!… (meer)