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When the Yankees Were on the Fritz: Revisiting the Horace Clarke Years.
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This book is a players inside look at the Horace Clarke Era, a low point in Yankee history when the New York Yankees couldn't win a pennant despite having one of the best right handed/and left handed pitching combinations in the game of baseball, Mel Stottlemyre and Fritz Peterson. It begins with the day Fritz Peterson entered the Yankee clubhouse in the spring of 1966 and
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Paperback, 248 pages
Published
April 25th 2015
by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
(first published August 21st 2014)
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A fun read that takes you back
Would this book be better with an editor and being published by a better-known publisher? Sure, but it could also have lost some of its heart. Fritz tells some fun behind-the-scenes stories about lesser-known players that were heroes to some young fans. Thanks Fritz.
Would this book be better with an editor and being published by a better-known publisher? Sure, but it could also have lost some of its heart. Fritz tells some fun behind-the-scenes stories about lesser-known players that were heroes to some young fans. Thanks Fritz.
This is one of the oddest books I've ever read, so I give it an extra star for quirkiness.
Odd editing... riddled with typos, exclamation points, poor grammar, bad exposition (mentioning something as if it had already been explained, then explaining it later), and repeated phrases, anecdotes and even whole sections.
Odd theology... the moral I gleaned is that you can apparently be as big a jerk as you want in life because God forgives everything.
Odd racist overtones... considering that the three t ...more
Odd editing... riddled with typos, exclamation points, poor grammar, bad exposition (mentioning something as if it had already been explained, then explaining it later), and repeated phrases, anecdotes and even whole sections.
Odd theology... the moral I gleaned is that you can apparently be as big a jerk as you want in life because God forgives everything.
Odd racist overtones... considering that the three t ...more
Repetitive at times
Ok book. Covers a part of Yankee history often overlooked. I enjoyed it but if you are a grammar police type I would stay away from it. Is a bit odd and repetitive.
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