Reviews for Epic Season : The 1948 American League Pennant Race

The average rating for Epic Season : The 1948 American League Pennant Race based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-01-30 00:00:00 CARL JEEMAN Unfortunately for this book, it reads like exactly what it is purported to be. That would be a book written by a person that didn't directly witness that pennant race of 1948 but read it through newspaper clippings and then strung together the weekly events of a very exciting pennant race...when teams won the pennant out of the regular season. The subject matter of the book completely had me, being from Cleveland and being interested in baseball. I found the epilogue of the book to be the most compelling feature of the book. The epilogue spelled out a statistic from Bill James that should project to winning percentage [Runs-Squared / (Runs-Squared + Opposition Runs-Squared)], and how the Indians actually were about ten wins better than their record in 1948. Not to say that this book has no merit, because it does, but I much more would have wanted and insider's story that would have followed the formula of Terry Pluto's "When All The World Was Brown's Town," which described the 1964 NFL Championship season of the Cleveland Browns.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-15 00:00:00 Kirsten Pakes While poetry is an important form of art for the Vietnamese, and it is a form of art that many of them - regardless of vocation - often turn to, their styles read easy and more like sentences broken into lines. Perhaps because of the translation, the poems lack style and does not have much rhythm. However, one does learn a lot about the pains of the war through the book. One also finds that many of the poems contain common references, thus learning about culture through the times as the poems are also arranged chronologically.