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A Band Of Misfits: Tales Of The 2010 San Francisco Giants (2011)

by Andrew Baggarly(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1600785980 (ISBN13: 9781600785986)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Triumph Books

review 1: Excellent recap of the dream season of these band of misfits! Loved every chapter and flowed really nicely. The background stories of all the players were my favorite parts, I've watched these guys for a year now and they feel like people I know and thanks to this book I really have great insight on them now. I highly recommend this book to any Giants fan, any baseball fan and any sports fan in general. Well written, awesomely told.
review 2: An enjoyable romp through a season of "Torture" that ended in bliss, this breezy book profiles the members of the 2010 Giants and chronicles their march to San Francisco's first-ever World Series win. Though not immune from the standard shortcomings of sportswriting (overdramatics, psychologizing, and cute turns of phrase... more), Baggarly chose the right approach for this improbable tale: profiling members of the band (baseball warts and all) one at a time and demonstrating how they fit together to make a winning team. He also situates the Giants in San Francisco, showing how the City loved and suffered with its heroes for more than half a century. Others have said that the 2010 win vindicated all those heartbreaking near-misses, but you can really feel it in these pages. Of course, it helps knowing the happy ending in advance. less

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