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Friday, September 24, 2004

One Day at Fenway Steve Kettmann's book recounts the Sox' August 30 pennant race loss to the Yankees last year from the perspectives of "some 25 team executives, coaches, players, fans, an umpire, a groundskeeper and a scoreboard operator." Here's an exclusive Salon excerpt, here's another excerpt, and here's a transcript of an online chat with the author. ESPN.com's Rob Neyer was offended by the book and thought it's "a waste, both of talent and trees." He published a pseudonymous Amazon review, got busted, and got scolded. (Other reviews are more positive.)

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Neyer later said he's sorry. Thinkubator comments on Neyer's "mouth-frothing mania."

None of those non-title links are working. Maybe one of the panthenon could clean them up? Also, there was a discussion about this here.

I fixed the first broken salon link. I think that was only one broken? I can't wait to read it.

I heard an interview with Kettmann on ESPN radio during the drive home last Friday. After reading Neyer's discussion about his incident with Kettmann and Amazon.com (see grum@work's link), I can't help but feel a bias against Kettmann. As I listened to him praise his book, I'm thinking, this book is "...a waste of trees and talent." Unfair, I know, but I can't help but think of him as a sneaky no-talent writer. I blame Neyer.

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