25. Seasons in Hell: with Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and “The Worst Baseball Team in History” the 1973 – 1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire

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25. Seasons in Hell: with Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and “The Worst Baseball Team in History” the 1973 – 1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire

Long title. Short, hilarious book.

My favorite line from the book is, “Once again, the fact was underscored that the Texas Rangers were not really a baseball franchise but rather a Kurt Vonnegut novel.”

This is one of the more entertaining baseball books I’ve read in a while. It’s not really a traditonal baseball book that describes play-by-play action in tons of games, it’s more like a behind-the-scenes look of traveling with a losing baseball team in the 1970s. So basically is about booze and fist fights. AWESOME.

Shropshire does seem to make everything into a joke, and it kind of gets old, however, he’s writing about “the Worst Baseball Team in History” so it’s kind of necessary, I guess.

You do not have to be a Rangers’ fan to like this book. (i’ve never even met a Rangers’ fan.) You might enjoy it more if you’re a baseball fan, but it’s not very technical so even if you aren’t it would still be a humorous read.

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