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Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes To Win, You Have To Change The Game (2014)

by J.B. Bernstein(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

147676588X (ISBN13: 9781476765884)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: An enjoyable skimmer. Liked the cultural aspects, and seeing baseball from an innocent perspective.Quote: "Dinesh pointed to the shortstop and asked me what he did wrong.'Nobody did anything wrong,' I told him. "The game hasn't even started yet.'But Dinesh was insistent. When I pressed him about why he thought the shortstop was in trouble, Dinesh pointing to the third baseman standing next to the third base bag, said 'He has a square.' The second baseman had a square; so did the first baseman. The pitcher had a mountain, and the guy in the armor (the catcher) had a pentagon (also known as home plate). But the shortstop? What did he have? Nothing.Where could I even begin?"
review 2: I received this book as part of the First Reads program. I don't normally r... moreead non-fiction/biographical books, but I'm glad I won this book and was prompted to read outside of my normal genres. Overall, I thought this was a fun, quick, and light-hearted read. A good summer feel-good book. As some other reviewers have mentioned, the writing itself is only average. There were many times that it gave me a somewhat disjointed feeling with the story jumping around paragraph to paragraph. I also felt like there were times I could have gotten more feeling out of the story or connected better to the characters if it were written better. However, the story itself is still good enough to pull you in and at least cheer for the underdogs. Although the author/narrator portrays himself initially as egotistical and spoiled, which makes it hard to like him, by the end of the book you realize it was to show the impact the Indian baseball players had on him. I loved pretty much every part involving Dinesh and Rinku, and appreciated the humor and struggles of them adapting to America. I also enjoyed seeing the impact it had on the players' families back home, and the change they were able to evoke in J.B. I look forward to seeing its adaptation to the big screen. less

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