Reviews for "The Father of Baseball": A Biography of Henry Chadwick

The average rating for "The Father of Baseball": A Biography of Henry Chadwick based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-24 00:00:00 Charles Ross Back in 2008, a chance encounter with the home of James "The Orator" O'Rourke while on a bus trip to a NY Mets game led to one of my sons deciding to do a school project on the three Baseball Hall of Famers from Connecticut who all played before 1900 (the two other HOFers from CT were executives). Helping him with his research got me interested in the early days of baseball so I joined SABR and a vintage base ball team. However, it was a chance encounter with a review of this book that mentioned that Henry Chadwick was the half-brother of Sir Edwin Chadwick that caught my attention (data visualization is another of my interests) which led to this being the first of hundreds of baseball books that I have read since then. This book was an excellent introduction to the early days of the New York game and does a great job detailing Chadwick's involvement in promoting the new sport, writing regular newspaper columns, helping to improve the rules, and developing the first box score. Chadwick was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938 as a Pioneer. This book should be required reading for any true baseball fan.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-31 00:00:00 Gustaaf Plancke I meet Murry back in 2004 or 2005 at a paranormal outing. I bought this book because I enjoyed the movie Great balls of Fire and wanted to find out more about the man who wrote it and the movie. each chaper in the book is like a mini book on all different subjents starting with the Myra and Jerry Lee (one of the best chapters in the book with lines comparing Martha Stewert to a crack whore and Jerry Lee to a wildcat's ass. I won't give the whole quotes on those as to leave something to look forward too) The next chapters deal with everything from Murrys highschool days as a rock promotor, dealing with Elvis crazy Dr Nick, Evon Race-wife of Wrestling star Harley Race, Gail-Queen of Porn, an extraterresteral dr and then the book seques into Tibetian Buddism. I found the chapters on Buddism a bit redundent to read only because all the names started sounding the same so I ended up making up my own names like ReRe and Za just to try and keep them all straight in my head. Would I recommend this book - Yes. I give most chapters 4 stars and the one's on buddism 3 stars.