Ballparks: Yesterday and Today
by Ian Westwell, Jim Sutton, John Pastier, Marc Sandalow, Michael Heatley
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Author: Ian Westwell, Jim Sutton, John Pastier, Marc Sandalow, Michael HeatleyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-08-25
ISBN: 0785823212
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc.
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Book Review: How Many Mistakes Are There?
Summary: 2 Stars
I received this book as a Christmas present (in 2007), as I am an avid baseball fan. And, since I grew up in St. Louis, the Cardinals have always been my team.
Naturally, I looked at the writeups of the St. Louis ballparks first and was extremely disappointed at what I read on page 400, which was, "During the 1960s, they (the St. Louis Cardinals)had three World Series teams -- 1964, 1967, and 1968, beating the Yankees, beating the Red Sox, and losing to the Twins in the three series."
Any Cardinal fan knows that the Cardinals lost to the Detroit Tigers in 1968, not the Twins. Major, major error.
Then the text continues, "They returned to the World Series three times in the 1980s, beating the Brewers in 1982, losing to the Royals in 1985, and losing to the Twins again in 1987." This statement is accurate except for the word "again" since the Cardinals did not lose to them in 1968.
Continuing on the same page is, "So popular and influential a figure was Musial that a statue in his honor was unveiled outside the Busch Stadium in 1968, three years before he entered the Hall of Fame." This statement implies that Musial was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971, when, in fact, he was inducted in 1969 (his first year of eligibility.)
Needless to say, after I found these errors on the same page after only reading about five pages in the book, I wonder just how many other errors there are throughout the book. And, I hope the above mentioned errors are corrected before any subsequent publishing.
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