* Review: The End of Baseball

May 30, 2008

City Pages, a Minneapolis/St. Paul based organization, ran this review of Peter Schilling Jr’s. new novel concerning the integration of baseball and Bill Veeck.

Upshot:

Skillfully drawn with all his flair (and all his faults), Schilling does a near-masterful job of constructing Veeck….And for what Schilling lacks at moments in his spare descriptions of zeitgeist and his caricatures of violence, he makes up for with adroit depictions of game stories. Baseball, when on the field, is one of those books where pages can flip in wonderful three or four pages chunks. Schilling has a great talent for description of in-game storytelling, and also for getting inside both the respective heads of his players and the mood of the dugout. Countless of these passages are skillfully written with grinding tension, tangible sweat, and audible jubilation (or rage, depending on the city).

A caveat, however: Schilling used to write for City Beat, in fact in the same capacity as the reviewer of his book.
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