I had absolutely no intention of reading Olney's book about the Yankees and their crumpled dynasty. Actually the book was basically about Game 7 2001 but as it went inning by inning, it gave an in depth look at many of the players, coaches, etc.
I don't think there was anything terribly revealing (there were some good stories that I had not heard, but much of it was stuff we all saw and probably remember) and I probably would have not been able to stomach it if the Red Sox were not the World Champions. In fact, there is no way in hell I would have read it. That being said, it was interesting and entertaining. Olney lays some serious smack down on Steinbrenner, which of course never gets old.
Yeah, for all Olney's pro-Yankees writing, he really despises Steinbrenner.
ReplyDeleteI'm about 15 pages into Faithful. Pretty mixed so far -- the Steven King passages are great, but they're few and far between. It's mostly Stewart O'Nan, who -- while he clearly loves the Sox and knows a bit about baseball -- is too much the Obnoxious Fan. "By pushing my way through a crowd of 8-year olds, I was able to get Brian Daubach to sign the baseball I brought." Well, nothing quite that bad, but you get the idea. I'll give a full report when I'm done.