RaveNewsday\"The result is the most complete account yet of Ruth’s complicated, tragic family life, including siblings who died young, parents who separated and, most famously, being shipped off to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore ... The book seeks to break new ground beyond Ruth’s childhood, notably how his visionary agent / public relations man / financial advisor Christy Walsh helped him navigate his celebrity in an era in which mass communication was reinventing what it meant to be a star ... The book largely avoids overdone material about big games and plays and focuses on his experiences, and the experiences of those around him.\
Keith Hernandez
PositiveThe News DayThe author establishes early on in I’m Keith Hernandez that this is no ordinary memoir, citing among his inspirations a visit to a grocery store to buy eggs and an episode of Seinfeld in which he starred and from which the title is drawn...More importantly, he establishes what it is not: a look back for Mets fans at the 1986 season and/or for Cardinals fans at 1982.
