Magic Time--#13 finished

A kind of fun baseball book that had some baseball problems for me. It was about a college senior that went undrafted by the major leagues and could only get on a Cornbelt League team in small town Iowa. Unknown to the player the team in Iowa wasn't really part of the league but instead was a way to snare young men into the town where they would hopefully decide to make a life there. Okay not so bad but at one point it mentioned this player was drafted in the 4th round as a junior and only had an okay season as a senior to then go undrafted--just wouldn't happen. Maybe I follow baseball too much but that was one thing I couldn't let go. Also this being the internet time with information at your finger tips, the idea a town could get away with not being in the league just didn't seem realistic. Also it seemed the town only had single daughters around waiting to marry off to these unattached men moving into town. Throw in the fact that everyone or many in town actually travel out and scout these baseball players, looking for players that "choke" really makes no sense either. I was also caught with the question of, wouldn't spending all that money and effort for scouting and running fake intrasquad games be put to use in like a factory or something that would bring jobs and people to town rather than a dishonest scheme.

Like I said if you don't think too hard not a bad read, but any little thinking or insight and this book really doesn't hold much water. This author also wrote the Shoeless Joe book that became Field of Dreams, probably the reason for why I picked it up at the library & that it cost a whole 50 cents. Oh well it is spring training time and at least thinking about baseball is kind of fun even if the book is a little too mindless & too sappy for my taste.

It is on 2 WL so I have posted it and will hopefully be mailing it off soon. Maybe the next person will enjoy it more.

I am still reading Rising Tide and Split Second. Not sure if I will add a 3rd tonight or not. I was fighting some kind of bug this week getting chills and sinus and stiffness for a couple of days--so not much reading went on this week. Still 13 books and might get another one done before the end of the month--not too bad.