A review by audra_spiven
Lefty: An American Odyssey by Vernona Gomez

Did not finish book.

2.0

Even my love of baseball purely for baseball's sake couldn't propel me all the way through this book. It has some great stories and information but is poorly organized and has the feel of a book that was left without an objective editor for cutting the snippets that didn't matter. For instance, there were entire chapters on the history of this baseball player's wife and her family and childhood. I simply didn't care about that stuff, but obviously it's meaningful to the author - who is the subject-in-question's daughter. Yes, I can see why she would think it important to talk about her mother's background as well as her father's, but when you're titling a book as a baseball biography, it is unfair to go on a tangent that lasts multiple chapters on your mother's childhood and work history, chapters that don't mention baseball even one time. I renewed this book at the library my full limit of three times and still couldn't get to the end, so I gave up and took it back.

Not recommended for general baseball lovers. I would recommend it to Yankees fans and that's about it.