| #830279 in eBooks | 2009-07-01 | 2009-07-01 | File type: PDF||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Personal Rant About Baseball Hall Of Fame|By Michael L. Slavin|The author seems displeased about virtually everything related to the Hall Of Fame. He doesn't like those who run it or many of those who vote for members. He spends a lot of pages lamenting that there are less African American players than there used to be. He argues that Latin American players are being exploited.|From Publishers Weekly|Cooperstown is a sleepy New York village with a population barely eclipsing 2,000, in a location where if you arrive by mistake, you've been lost for forty-five minutes. But Chafets explains why Cooperstown and the National Baseball Hall
If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ever to be dignified by an honor of any kind.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame | Zev Chafets. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
