The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families, by Kevin Cook
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The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families, by Kevin Cook
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Baseball honors legacies from cheering the home team to breaking in an old glove handed down from father to son. In "The Dad Report," award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons from the sport s superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father share the game."
The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families, by Kevin Cook- Amazon Sales Rank: #5489475 in Books
- Brand: Center Point Pub
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.20" w x 5.60" l,
- Binding: Library Binding
- 500 pages
Review “Lyrical…an affectionate look at the diamond dads and their (mostly) sensational sons.” (David M. Shribman - Wall Street Journal)“[Cook] deftly interweaves sports and family stories…the book works on the same level the game does: as a time machine shuttling between childhood games of catch and wobbly video of Babe Ruth hitting a homer.” (Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe)“What makes Cook special as a sportswriter is that he is able to balance the joy and pain of being a fan with the investigative and analytical skill of a professional journalist…. Cook’s prose has the perfect conversational style for combining baseball’s childlike dreams and grown-up realities into a satisfying narrative.” (Publishers Weekly)“Kevin Cook, the son of a minor-league screwball pitcher, has just the right voice to explore how baseball connects fathers and sons. The Dad Report is a smart, fresh take on a timeless topic.” (Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports)“[T]he ultimate Father’s Day book, albeit one the sons will want to read, too.” (Allen Barra - Dallas Morning News)“A book both about baseball families and for baseball families. But most of all, it is perhaps the best book ever on how baseball creates family. A great piece of sports literature.” (Allen Barra, author of Yogi Berra: The Eternal Yankee)“The part baseball plays in the bonds between fathers and sons has enduring appeal. Still, even worthy subjects can be exhausted. But wait―Kevin Cook finds a different way in. The distinctly different stories of fathers and sons who played in the big leagues―with just enough of the Cook family’s own connections to the game―make The Dad Report such an enjoyable and informative read.” (Bob Costas)
About the Author A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. "Dad and I didn't talk much for years. What was there to say? We weren’t about to discuss our feelings, our health, politics, or religion. In time, though, we learned that we could always talk baseball. 'Randy Johnson 15 Ks!' can be another way to say hello. We wound up talking on the phone almost every night, almost always about baseball. We talked baseball as a way of talking about everything else, and we named our nightly call the Dad Report." ―from the Introduction
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. RICK “SHAQ” GOLDSTEIN SAYS: “FATHERS… SONS… DAUGHTER… BASEBALL… THE “UNIVERSAL” COMMUNICATOR… WRAPPED AROUND A LOVE STORY” By Rick Shaq Goldstein I have been reading baseball books non-stop for over fifty years. More and more baseball books nowadays are buried in (at least to old-school fans) too much meaningless new wave statistical mumbo jumbo… that takes away from what baseball is all about… true love of the game… bonding of families… and the true core statistics that have been… and always will be… passed down from generation to generation. Homeruns… RBI’s… Singles… Doubles… Triples… Stolen Bases… Batting Average… Wins… Losses… ERA’s…. Complete Games… etc. Not… the ever growing list of new age definitions… including… but not limited to… “Quality start is a statistic for a starting pitcher defined as a game in which the pitcher completes at least six innings and permits no more than three earned runs.”…If that’s a “quality” worth making a statistic out of… you may as well give a trophy to every person that ever shows up for a game… whether they win or lose.One thing will never change… and that’s the ease… beauty… and love… of Fathers and sons… (And daughters) being able to talk baseball. Though there is many more expertly discussed topics (which I’ll describe shortly) in this book… that is what’s at the core of this wonderfully emoted love story from the author… to his Father… and back… with baseball being the universal link… in good times and bad.The author, Kevin Cook… starts off writing about his Dad... Art… who was a great college baseball and basketball player… and had some great success in minor-league baseball… but never made the big leagues. The son… though not a good ballplayer… absorbed an insider’s view and knowledge of the way baseball was truly played between the lines. Even as the author unflinchingly points out the digressions and disappointments… of his Father… on and off the field… he finds that… through it all… the tough times… and otherwise non-communicable times… Father and son… could always talk about baseball.Inserted… and peppered… throughout the personal story… the author also examines in depth… many… multi-generational… Father/son/… and even grandson… baseball families… and how they succeeded. Some of the families are Ron and Ike Davis… Dan Haren Sr. and Jr…. three generations of Boones… and then literally out of left- field… or should I say “right-field”… and the pitcher’s mound… Babe Ruth and his adopted daughter Julia. A lot of Babe’s fans will see a side of the Sultan of Swat… they may not have seen in quite such depth before. Bobby and Barry Bonds and Michael Jordan are also covered.One of the many traits in the author’s writing that I enjoyed… was that in the middle of emotional-poetic telling of the stories… he would still hit you with non-sugar coated analysis…such as in the Bonds section: “Barry went to Arizona State, where coach Jim Brock called him the best player in school history, a history that includes Sal Bando, Bob Horner, and Bobby’s second cousin Reggie Jackson. Brock also called him “THE WORST TEAMMATE.” Barry used to park his shiny black Trans-Am in Coach Brock’s parking space. He bragged about the bonus money he’d turned down, and popped off about his dad,” Brock said calling his best-ever player “rude, inconsiderate, and self-centered. I don’t think he ever figured out how to get people to like him.”And… tenderly… it seemed… that the author was coming to certain life changing metamorphosing… self-awareness… regarding the true impact that his Dad had on his life…“Knocking out freelance magazine stories, I checked in with Dad if I was writing about a ballplayer. “Is he a gamer?” he’d ask, and I realized that my heroes were people who never quit and never complained. That’s a gamer… someone who gets the job done. Someone who works hard with no fuss, without expecting a pat on the back. Someone who doesn’t care if anyone else knows how hard he works or how good he is at his job, because he knows. My editor friend Rob was a gamer. Pamela was too, and I tried to be one. ONLY NOW WHEN DAD WAS IN HIS SIXTIES, DID I REALIZE THAT MY IDEA OF WHO AND WHAT TO ADMIRE… AND WHY… CAME FROM HIM. EVEN IN HIS YEARS OF ECLIPSE, HE’D BEEN IN MY HEAD.”I am a Grandfather now… still talking baseball with my son… and my Granddaughters… and our next “chat” will include some of the things I’ve read in this wonderful book about baseball “AND” life!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Baseball book of the year. By Triple R This is one of the best baseball books of the year. Well written memories and history of the writer's dad. Mixing baseball stories in his family that remind us all days we spent with our own dads watching ball games and playing catch. I hated to see the book end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. or love baseball, read this book By Trumbo123 If you had or have a father, or have a son, or love baseball, read this book. I just finished it. Absolutely beautiful. It read like a poem. Impossible to put down. A perfect gift for Father's Day. Or to kick off the baseball season. Or just for the hell of it.
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