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The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone
There are baseball books and there are baseball books.
But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering ...more
But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous first-person account of Mike's travails serving as a daily beat writer covering ...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
May 14th 2008
by Grand Central Publishing
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This is a very funny book about baseball in the year 1975. I found myself laughing out loud many times much to the distress of my husband while he was trying to watch tv/read/sleep. I ended up keeping my mouth closed and instead made choking sounds which probably also bothered him. He will be reading this book next and since he has a habit of telling me everything that is happening in his book, I'll get to hear it all again!
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Something of an eulogy for the lost, pre-multi-millionaire game of professional baseball, Shropshire documents the trials, tribulations, and anecdotes of the zany, and somewhat disturbing, 1975 season of the Texas Rangers. This is highly recommended for those still interested in our “National Pastime.” I might also offer this to those who attempt to chew tobacco, chain-smoke, consume massive quantities of booze, skirt-chase, bar-brawl, and speak without filter in the early Twenty-First Century....more
Author Mike Shropshire pens a very funny look at the 1975 baseball season, in which his gonzo-inspired style of writing and story immersion lend lots of laughs and improbably moments. However, I felt sold short of a book that delved into why this was the "real last season". Shropshire certainly alludes to the rationale during the introduction, but fails to back it up by his blog-like account of the season. I much preferred his "Seasons in Hell" and his most recent effort play...more
Good analysis of baseball as it begins to enter the free agent era. Also, as a Reds fan, some good Big Red Machine history here.
A sequel to SEASONS IN HELL, written about ten years after, THE LAST REAL SEASON suffers, as did that book, from Shropshire's smart-alecky tone, as well as Shropshire's belaboring of the point that these players weren't on steroids and didn't make exorbitant sums of money. Still, there is much to relish in this account of the Texas Rangers' Road to Perdition
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