Christopher L. (cbrett42) reviewed Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I'm a big baseball fan, and I thought it would be interesting to learn more about the history of the game, but I found this book very hard to read. It's very dry, and goes off on long, meandering tangents about the personal lives of the people involved, even when the tangent has little to do with their place in baseball history. At other times, some of the things I found most interesting were mentioned almost as an aside in one sentence, then never discussed in more detail. Finally, the narrative jumps around in time, making it hard to keep track of who is who and what is going on. Maybe this would be more interesting to someone who enjoys studying history and also happens to like baseball. Then you might appreciate all the little details that the author goes in to. But if you're a baseball fan looking to learn more about the game, I recommend looking somewhere else.
