Gift from Charlie, received late last year, he conceived it as sort of a distraction from prostate cancer treatments then underway. Good idea! I had read about 75% then and finished it this month.
Structured as "50 Moments" per the title, but author recounts way way more episodes than that. Enjoyable throughout; oddly enough one of my favorite segments was the story of Sandy Koufax's fourth no-hitter - it consisted of quoting Vin Scully's call of the final inning. Lots of obvious and not-so-obvious items were included, variety with a few from overseas, minors, Negro leagues - mostly MLB of course, a mixture of content going back 100+ years. Maybe a little heavy on the recent stuff but that was OK.
Baseball is indeed awesome.
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