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A review by whitejamaica
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball by Howard Bryant
2.0
+ There's something nostalgic about baseball. I'll take any chance to take a deeper dive into the game I love. Bryant's book is a true exploration of several aspects of the game that take place behind-closed-doors, and I found the narratives to be both entertaining and informative.
- I enjoyed Bryant's style but I do have a gripe to pick with the editor. The cuts between player profiles and historical depictions is jarring. When Bryant is not jumping back and forth between profiles on McGuire and Sosa and Matt Williams, he's discussing commissioner turnover, then the strike, then the steroid era, then back to the union's conflict with the commissioner.
- The editor's hastiness in proof-reading is evident, as every third page appears to have a letter missing or an incorrect tense.
- "To John Hoberman, a steroid expert at the University of Texas, the impulse on the part of the baseball leadership to immediately defend the use of a product neither it nor the game's many, better-qualified medical experts knew much about offered a telling glimpse into how the sport was prepared to deal with the sudden, important revelation that, like the rest of the sporting world, baseball players had been exposed to the power of supplements." ... Why do I feel like I was the first person to read this line?
- I enjoyed Bryant's style but I do have a gripe to pick with the editor. The cuts between player profiles and historical depictions is jarring. When Bryant is not jumping back and forth between profiles on McGuire and Sosa and Matt Williams, he's discussing commissioner turnover, then the strike, then the steroid era, then back to the union's conflict with the commissioner.
- The editor's hastiness in proof-reading is evident, as every third page appears to have a letter missing or an incorrect tense.
- "To John Hoberman, a steroid expert at the University of Texas, the impulse on the part of the baseball leadership to immediately defend the use of a product neither it nor the game's many, better-qualified medical experts knew much about offered a telling glimpse into how the sport was prepared to deal with the sudden, important revelation that, like the rest of the sporting world, baseball players had been exposed to the power of supplements." ... Why do I feel like I was the first person to read this line?