| Title | : | First Base Faulkner (Classic Reprint) |
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| ISBN | : | 0331238470 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780331238471 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 346 |
| Publication | : | Published November 20, 2017 |
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First Base Faulkner (Classic Reprint) Reviews
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With the death of his father, a man of more limited income and larger debts than his wife believed, Faulkner is sent to live with his mother's spinster sister, Aunt Sarah, to finish up high school, while his mom works as a cleaning lady in a hotel. He befriends the local athletes, founds a business with a friend, joins the baseball team, and has himself a pretty good chase sequence. Reasonable fare for a boy's sports book.
But this is an unusually good one. The writing is very solid, the characters are not cardboard cutouts, and Our Hero doesn't wow the universe with his multisport talent. He's a decent baseball player - not, by any means, the star of the team - and spends a fair amount of time on the bench. Moreover, his rival .
I looked up the author, and was surprised to learn that Christy Mathewson was an exceptional baseball player, one of the first five admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and regarded by all and sundry as a fine Christian gentleman. Mathewson wrote a newspaper column, and seems to have authored his books himself. And this feels, in fact, like the kind of book that a really nice guy, gifted at both baseball and story-telling, would have written.
Available on Gutenberg, as are a few more of Mathewson's books. Even though I'm no fan of baseball, I'll be reading him again.
