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smbragg's review against another edition
5.0
Poor Ernie played his heart out for the perennial disappointments of the Chicago Cubs. Mr. Cub never got to the postseason as a player but he was allowed to dress and sit on the bench when the Cubs made the playoffs in '84. His years after baseball were sad and that was tough to read. RIP Ernie.
yulelogue's review against another edition
3.0
Too many digressions for my taste. Content about Banks is good. But there are large chunks that go into the make up of the Cubs, Phil Wrigley, Leo Durocher and the collapse in 1969 to the New York Mets. Although the author does try to connect Banks’ experience to these people and events, I don’t feel it was properly explored to the depth worthy of a biography. More than a few times I checked the title of the book assuming it was about the Cubs and not Banks. I also think there could have been more details about his relationships including his parents, siblings and the wives that were sort of cut out from the book. He was a complicated character, clearly, but there’s no attempt to even theorize why.
dickh's review
3.0
Lets play two is too short, sort of like a double header with two five inning games. While I enjoyed the book, there was not a lot of detail on the big games of Banks's career. There is another new biography out on Ernie Banks, with the same title, and the other biography is twice as long, so I say, Lets Read Two and go for the other bio as well.
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