Review? The Art of Catching

June 25, 2009

by Brent Mayne. I put the question mark in there because I’m not sure what to make of this irreverent piece by the colorful Jimmy Scott who reminds me more and more of a Martin Short character.

What separates The Art of Catching from any other book, like A Tale of Two Cities or The World According To Garp?  I’ll let you in on the secret: The Art of Catching is about catching.  The other books have very little to do with baseball, and virtually nothing to do with posture of a receiver behind home plate.  See?  That’s the difference.  While Charles Dickens and John Irving, respectively, wrote their books about people who don’t exist, Brent wrote about himself and Johnny Bench and Roy Campanella and Yogi Berra.  These people were so real, they made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Read at your own risk.

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