Bob Weintraub

If you’re a true baseball aficionado, you’ll appreciate this collection of baseball stories by Bob Weintraub. Painting the Corners, Volume 1: A Collection of Off-Centre Baseball Stories [Iguana Books, 2012] gathers eleven tales of widely divergent personalities, from old-timers to auto mechanics to convicts, who all have one thing in common. They all love to play baseball.
Fans will feel like they’re right there in the games, as Weintraub’s stories are chock-full of baseball vernacular.
I started out thinking these stories were true. They’re so believable that I looked up a player on the internet only to find he never existed!
I love baseball and reading, so this book was perfect for me. Painting the Corners would make a great gift for the person in your life who loves the game of baseball.

I was not paid for this review.… (mehr)

If you’re a true baseball aficionado, you’ll appreciate this collection of baseball stories by Bob Weintraub. Painting the Corners, Volume 1: A Collection of Off-Centre Baseball Stories [Iguana Books, 2012] gathers eleven tales of widely divergent personalities, from old-timers to auto mechanics to convicts, who all have one thing in common. They all love to play baseball.
Fans will feel like they’re right there in the games, as Weintraub’s stories are chock-full of baseball vernacular.
I started out thinking these stories were true. They’re so believable that I looked up a player on the internet only to find he never existed!
I love baseball and reading, so this book was perfect for me. Painting the Corners would make a great gift for the person in your life who loves the game of baseball.

I was not paid for this review.… (mehr)

NOTE: I received an e-copy of this book from the author/publisher. All that was asked was an honest review.

This was a good human interest book about things good and bad, some funny and some not so funny that had happened to different people who were in baseball in one way or another. It had stories about players, managers, scouts and others, both in the majors and the minors. The author did a good job collecting these stories and doesn't bore the reader with dry fact and stats except where it is needed for the story.

The only reason it got 4 stars instead of 5 was because it was so short. Only about 106 pages and left me wishing there was more.… (mehr)