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A review by blevins
The End of Baseball: A Novel by Peter Schilling Jr.
2.0
I love baseball history and good baseball novels and the premise of this book is something that I have often dreamed about when reading about Negro League players: what if a bunch of Negro Leaguers crashed the color line pre-1947 Jackie Robinson? Well, The End of Baseball attempts to answer that.
1943. Black players will comprise the entire Philadelphia Athletics. Players such as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard etc etc make up the cast of characters. The problem with the book is that it is just so hokey and simplistic with baseball scenes on the unbelievable, sensational side (not realistic).
If it was better written it would have been more successfull instead of just being a good, interesting idea.
1943. Black players will comprise the entire Philadelphia Athletics. Players such as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard etc etc make up the cast of characters. The problem with the book is that it is just so hokey and simplistic with baseball scenes on the unbelievable, sensational side (not realistic).
If it was better written it would have been more successfull instead of just being a good, interesting idea.