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All the Way: The Life of Baseball Trailblazer Maybelle Blair
by Kat D Williams
medium-paced
A missed opportunity.
The book is not well-written and strangely repetitive for a book that's less than 100 pages. Unfortunately, it's basically an amateurish, thinly sourced autobiography. The author purportedly interviewed others in Maybelle Blair's life, but you wouldn't know it by reading this book. The vast majority of the book recounts Blair's life stories and how she felt about things that happened therein. There is virtually no outside perspective from anyone Blair crossed paths with, so we are not really left with any idea of who she was, how her actions affected others, or what most people thought about her, either in or out of baseball. Nor is there any historical perspective from which the reader can get a true sense of the times in which she lived (and she's lived through a lot). The lack of that perspective is shocking considering the author is a history professor.
The book is not well-written and strangely repetitive for a book that's less than 100 pages. Unfortunately, it's basically an amateurish, thinly sourced autobiography. The author purportedly interviewed others in Maybelle Blair's life, but you wouldn't know it by reading this book. The vast majority of the book recounts Blair's life stories and how she felt about things that happened therein. There is virtually no outside perspective from anyone Blair crossed paths with, so we are not really left with any idea of who she was, how her actions affected others, or what most people thought about her, either in or out of baseball. Nor is there any historical perspective from which the reader can get a true sense of the times in which she lived (and she's lived through a lot). The lack of that perspective is shocking considering the author is a history professor.