Keith Hernandez
Forfatter af Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan
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Keith Hernandez was born on October 20, 1953 in San Francisco, California. He is a former first baseman who played most of his career with the World Series-winning Major League teams, St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. Some of his other awards include earning eleven consecutive Gold Gloves vis mere and the National League co-MVP Award. After retiring from the game, he has worked in television broadcasting as an analyst on Mets telecasts for the SNY, WPIX, and MSG networks and is a member of the FOX Sports MLB postseason studio team. He is the author of If at First: A Season with the Mets (1986), Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan (1994), First-Base Hero (2005), Shea Good-Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season (2009), Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets (2014), and I'm Keith Hernandez: A Memoir (2018) (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Most Valuable Player (NL|1979)
Silver Slugger Award (NL|1B|1980)
Silver Slugger Award (NL|1B|1984)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1978)
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Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1980) (vis alle 14)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1981)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1982)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1983)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1984)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1985)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1986)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1987)
Gold Glove Award (NL|1B|1988)
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The book proclaims itself to be for the advanced fan, which I clearly am not. I still got a huge amount from it, although I had to puzzle over some phraseology that would be natural to a more seasoned spectator. (It could easily be made more accessible, though, with a glossary and rule summary at the back). It also got more complex as the book wore on - commendably, Hernandez assumes that you have learnt what he told you previously in the book.
But, boy, is it dense! Hernandez doesn't waste many words on much that isn't pretty directly related to some facet of baseball, with that facet directly related to what is happening in the game at the point he's currently describing. I found at times that I had to limit how much I read without losing concentration.
It was written about 20 years ago, so I'm sure loads has changed, but perhaps not. It also doesn't mention any of the doping scandals that plagued the sport, but I don't know whether this is because the book is from a prior era (I don't think so), through wilful bowlderisation of history, editorial judgement, avoidance of being sued, or not wanting to piss off his colleagues.
There is a little bit of self-puffery here, but not enough for me to find objectionable. He also seems happy to let you know when he's guessed wrong, when it would have been easy to fix what he said (I don't know, maybe some of that did go on, but I didn't get that sense). It's opinionated too - he's happy to say when he disagrees with conventional wisdom.
So for all that, and for this reader, it is probably a book to reread. I got it from the library, but would definitely like to buy a copy to refer to.
Probably the best sports book I've ever read.… (mere)