Bluegrass Baseball A Year in the Minor League Life (Audible Audio Edition) Katya Cengel Bob Johnson University Press Audiobooks Books
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Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players America's pastime is still alive and well and is still the heartfelt sport it's always been...in the minor leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history continues to play out in the four teams profiled in this audiobook. Following these teams through the 2010 season - the triumphs, struggles, and big-league hopes and dreams - the book tells the larger story of baseball in America's smaller venues, where the game in its purest form is still valued and warmly embraced.
The story begins before the season, with national anthem singing tryouts in Lexington, then tags along with players, staff, and fans at home, in the office, and on the field, offering a rare glimpse of the unglamorous reality of minor-league ball. From the front-office staff in Bowling Green planning kooky promotions to a trainer grocery shopping for a team on 40 dollars a day to a new wife coming to terms with her husband's transitory lifestyle to a father struggling to make it back to the majors and a Cuban defector blowing everyone away with a 100-plus mile per hour fastball, these are the people who live to make baseball happen in all its nitty-gritty glory.
Bluegrass Baseball A Year in the Minor League Life (Audible Audio Edition) Katya Cengel Bob Johnson University Press Audiobooks Books
Living in Frankfort, I’ve experienced both the Legends and the Bats, so I enjoyed the behind the scenes view that Katya presents. Watching the Legends, it is about fun for the game and future dreams for most of them are around 25. At all levels there is change, and “Applebee’s park” is now Whitaker Bank Park, Chris Pearl is no longer grounds keeper, and Jose Altuve is batting .334 for the Astos, and Jiovanni Mier is now in AA with Corpus Christi Hooks (don’t you love those names!). I most respect the determination of the Latin plays, and in Lexington with nine players sharing one condo. .Of course the path of the Bat’s Chapman is meteoric as a closer. For the AAA team, the bigs are within site. The differences in salary are staggering, Jio signs for $20,000 and Jose for $1.3 million, and perhaps $1300 a month, white AAA $2400. For the unaffiliated players at Florence, everything is less, including prospects. The manager does have more responsibility in managing the talent, it cuts and hires. Perhaps as a writer, most unique is the perspective of the wifes, that Cengel had access to, such as Kalee Maloney, wife of Bats pitcher Matt Maloney who details the logistic hurdles, and an impending wedding.Product details
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Bluegrass Baseball A Year in the Minor League Life (Audible Audio Edition) Katya Cengel Bob Johnson University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
Well-written book that provides fans the back story behind life in the Minors. It's clear that Cengel is a gifted features writer, and she does an excellent job telling the story behind the players' wives, the man who brought the Legends to Lexington, the player struggling to accept the end of his professional baseball career, and more. However, the editors and author clearly overlooked the details that are so important when talking about baseball like calling another team the "Carolina Lookouts" when they are instead the "Chattanooga Lookouts." Or more egregiously saying a team is "ranked fifth" in a six team division. Teams are in fifth place, not "ranked fifth." An author truly into baseball would not have made these mistakes and better editors would have caught these glaring errors. Despite mistakes like these and others, the book is still a very good read and a really enjoyable.
When I was a Dartmouth freshman in 1966, the Red Sox minor league team had an open tryout fortheir Pittsfield, Massachusetts team. I think it was single-A. I hitch hiked down from Hanover (NH), and wasn’t even asked to stick around for the afternoon.
As a kid, I fell in love with the movie "The Damn Yankees", and I suspect I’d have also sold my soul to the devil for one year in the majors.
Every once in a great while I’ll wonder what it would have been like if I’d have made the cut and played for a minor-league team. Well I just finished "Blue Grass Baseball", and now I know.
What a great book!!
A good read Katya! Well researched and well written!
Congratulations to Katya Cengal on her wonderful depiction of minor league baseball in the Commonwealth. Her insights and perceptions of the people and the game itself were right on. A very easy and interesting read. I recommend it to all sports fans.
Arrived very promptly...was what I expected. This was a gift for a former professional ball player who spent 12 years in the minors. He enjoyed it.
Wow! This was a great read from start to finish. My background in baseball is not huge, and I still had trouble putting this book down at night. It is refreshing to be able to pick up a book about baseball and feel like you're seeing a part of the players lives that the public is usually shielded from. I'll be purchasing this book for stocking stuffers for the guys on my list this year!
This book is a 360 degree overview of life in the minor leagues as exemplified by four teams in Kentucky, not merely the players or the games, but the wives, families, stadiums, managers, coaches, owner shenanigans to raise money, travel and housing horrors, you name it. If you ever wanted to start in baseball from the bottom up, especially if you were from some Caribbean baseball culture, or if you just wanted to know how it would feel to be there or part of it, this is your book.
It pulls no punches, it can be a hard life, and few make it to the majors. The feel one gets from the book, though, at least for the spectators, is that it can be way more fun than the major leagues.
As a recent letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer put it"We had the greatest enjoyment while attending the Lake Erie Captains game this past Sunday. They know how to treat the customer. So many neat things were done for the fans and children The kids running the bases after the game. Singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in Yiddish (it was Jewish Heritage Day), and their nicest act was letting all of the physically challenged children play ball with the Captains players on the field. You had to be there."
This book is the next best thing to being there and behind the scenes, too.
Living in Frankfort, I’ve experienced both the Legends and the Bats, so I enjoyed the behind the scenes view that Katya presents. Watching the Legends, it is about fun for the game and future dreams for most of them are around 25. At all levels there is change, and “Applebee’s park” is now Whitaker Bank Park, Chris Pearl is no longer grounds keeper, and Jose Altuve is batting .334 for the Astos, and Jiovanni Mier is now in AA with Corpus Christi Hooks (don’t you love those names!). I most respect the determination of the Latin plays, and in Lexington with nine players sharing one condo. .Of course the path of the Bat’s Chapman is meteoric as a closer. For the AAA team, the bigs are within site. The differences in salary are staggering, Jio signs for $20,000 and Jose for $1.3 million, and perhaps $1300 a month, white AAA $2400. For the unaffiliated players at Florence, everything is less, including prospects. The manager does have more responsibility in managing the talent, it cuts and hires. Perhaps as a writer, most unique is the perspective of the wifes, that Cengel had access to, such as Kalee Maloney, wife of Bats pitcher Matt Maloney who details the logistic hurdles, and an impending wedding.
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