Baseball. Summer is about listening to, talking about, and sometimes watching our national pastime.
Reading baseball books works too. Sometimes it doesn't. This one is one of those times.
1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever by Bill Madden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I thought I'd like it. I'm a sucked for baseball books. But it was too much fact and not enough story. The book leaves the impression that the author is a baseball beat writer and his research for the book consisted of reading old baseball columns from the year and his writing of the book consisted of writing a super-long baseball column.
Notwithstanding that '54 was a hell of a year, this book didn't quite capture it for me.