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Bill Madden, the 2010 recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Steinbrenner For more than thirty years, he has covered baseball for the New York Daily News. He lives in New Jersey.
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The author is a sportswriter who had become particularly close to Seaver over the years. He had conducted several lengthy interviews with Seaver after the pitcher's retirement. I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of depth to this biography. It's essentially an (adoring) survey of Seaver's life and, especially, baseball career. Well, when a 70-year life is covered in only 285 pages, you are not going to get much in-depth probing. As such, though, I mostly enjoyed it. It's not the most sharply written book on the bookshelf, and there are some spots where an editor's hand might have been useful, and that recounting of Seaver's life was interesting enough for a baseball fan.

I did learn a few things that I either didn't know or had forgotten. One is that Seaver openly criticized the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The other was that Seaver signed first by the Atlanta Braves, and he was looking forward to being teammates with the great Hank Aaron. But due to an entirely accidental breaking of the rule against signing college players while the collegiate season was in progress (two games that everybody thought had been pre-season exhibitions had turned out to be on the official season schedules of the team involved), Seaver ended up the prize in a lottery among any team that was willing to match the Braves' offer, and in that way ended up on the Mets. It was nice to learn that throughout his life, and even at the height of his fame and success, Seaver remained close friends with many of the guys he'd played Little League, high school and junior college baseball with in his home town of Fresno, CA. Seaver's battles with Mets general manager M. Donald Grant are well chronicled, here, as is his up-and-down relationship with his own fame, and certain individual games are highlighted in depth to good effect. Madden is, after all, a sportswriter first and foremost. All in all I'd say this is a good if not great biography, but absolutely for baseball fans only.
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rocketjk | 1 weitere Rezension | Jul 1, 2023 |
A good little book about the life of Tom Terrific. Not too much new info that I hadn’t already heard, but it was well put together nonetheless. If you don’t know much about Seaver, this would be a good place to start.
 
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MrMet | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 28, 2023 |
Enjoyable. A few great stories that I hadn't heard before, but mostly a fun romp through my baseball watching past which I mostly remember. If a book is ever written on those Gabe Paul tapes, now THAT would be awesome.
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BooksForDinner | 1 weitere Rezension | Feb 1, 2016 |
A fabulous view into the life of one of baseball's greatest legends, STEINBRENNER: The Last Lion of Baseball by Bill Madden served as an inspiration for the on-again-off-again relationship of Queen Morgan le Fay and the love of her late-twenty-first-century life, Sandy Carter in my sequel to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
 
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