MixedBookforumHis book is weird. I’m not saying I didn’t admire the approach—a failure-drenched coming-of-age-in-the-minors tale, alternating with snapshots of a cranky broadcaster slogging his way down the Long Island Expressway ... There are good stories of being red-assed by Bob Gibson and sagely mentored by Lou Brock, of encounters with Baseball Annies and Roger Waters, but dare I say this book has a hole in it? One precisely the size and shape of my heart? ... If he’s not going to write a better book than David Wells then at least I can dream that he’s the more coherent man. But is he? Smart and demonstrably thoughtful as he is, Hernandez boasts, he exhorts the doubtful to follow his example of hard work and adaptability, he blusters about changes to the game and to society, he drops names—in other words, he writes exactly the sports memoir expected of him ... Didn’t anyone think to suggest to him that 2018 might be past time to retire his anecdote about gathering with his Tulsa teammates to watch through pre-cut holes in a set of hotel drapes as one of his teammates has sex with a \'fairly attractive,\' and presumably unsuspecting, woman? ... I’m dropping it [the book], in favor of his Twitter feed—it’s better written!
