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I love baseball. I think it is a very poetic game. Each game was wonderful characters and multiple storylines that I can sit and watch while eating a hot dog.

Many people I know are not affectionate towards baseballs. In some cases, I know people who hate baseball. They find it slow, boring and odd. After reading 9 Innings by Daniel Okrent, I understand (a little) how they feel.

This book dragged on and on. Okrent is a great writer, but his transitions from the game and story were very wide. By the time he got back to the game, I had already forgotten everything. I forgot the batter, the score, the situation, everything.

His stories were at times good. I enjoyed early information on Bud Selig (who later became MLB Commissioner) and the infamous Earl Weaver. However, the other characters were forgettable for me. The idea of the book was the intricacies of an ordinary baseball game, but in the end I was bored.


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Nine Innings Daniel Okrent 9780618056699 Books Reviews

Requested as a gift.
Classic analysis of what's really going on in a professional baseball game.
Very detailed of what goes on during a game.
Kinda slow. Not what I expected
"9 Innings" is an eloquent, entertaining, erudite book, marred only by a kind of drive-by criticism of evangelicals. The book reminds me of David Halberstam's famous "Summer of `49" in its clarity and wit, and in its ability to enrich the main narrative with delightfully written vignettes about the principal participants. I'm sorry to say that it reminds me of "Summer of `49" in one other way. Whereas "Summer of `49" contains some uncharacteristically splenetic passages concerning a vague, ill-defined Calvinism, "9 Innings" does something very similar to evangelicals. The suspicion that this part of the text is really a pretext for venting about a pet peeve is confirmed by the fact that the jumping-off point for this section is a discussion of Sal Bando, including his religion, but the book points out that Bando is not an evangelical. Then, the book tells us that "many in baseball" don't like the way evangelicals talk about God's will, the author doesn't like Baseball Chapel, and the San Francisco Giants organization is especially plagued with evangelicals using God's will as an excuse. No specific examples of what the offending Giants actually said are given. Indeed, one of the few specific examples given, of anything an evangelical said or did to offend, is Bob McClure's intimation that God may have had something to do with his recovery from a torn rotator cuff. This is beyond the pale because it "had little to do with matters at hand." Yet, on the very next page, Ted Simmons is mentioned approvingly for his opinion on the Equal Rights Amendment. Perhaps Mr. Okrent got his ERA's confused. I'm typing this review from a country where tens of thousands of evangelicals have suffered and/or died because of religious persecution and, even now, many are languishing in prison. So, though this section of the book is thankfully brief, it leaves a sour taste. Happily, the book contains many more delightful, fly-on-the-wall tidbits that make it a great read. One that comes to mind is when a reporter jokingly referred to Milwaukee relievers McClure and Castro as "Ethyl" and "Premium". Overall, "9 Innings" is a gas.
A great book for a fan who simply loves the game. Set aside all the promotional crap and ego surrounding contemporary baseball, sit back and read about the game as it is played and as it is watched by a keen observer. Enjoy. An afternoon spent reading "Nine Innings" is almost as good as an afternoon at the ballpark -- but nothing's as good as an afternoon at the ballpark.
Excellent Book! In many ways it could be considered a history (given when the game in question was played). It is odd to see Bud Selig running around as a team owner and not commissioner. But it still drills down into the nitty gritty of MLB and the "anatomy" of all the things that make a game happen, from the in game considerations to the roster moves of previous years that put the teams on the field and what drove those moves.

A good book for anyone, but an exceptional book for baseball fans. I encourage everyone to read it!
I love baseball. I think it is a very poetic game. Each game was wonderful characters and multiple storylines that I can sit and watch while eating a hot dog.

Many people I know are not affectionate towards baseballs. In some cases, I know people who hate baseball. They find it slow, boring and odd. After reading 9 Innings by Daniel Okrent, I understand (a little) how they feel.

This book dragged on and on. Okrent is a great writer, but his transitions from the game and story were very wide. By the time he got back to the game, I had already forgotten everything. I forgot the batter, the score, the situation, everything.

His stories were at times good. I enjoyed early information on Bud Selig (who later became MLB Commissioner) and the infamous Earl Weaver. However, the other characters were forgettable for me. The idea of the book was the intricacies of an ordinary baseball game, but in the end I was bored.