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Loading... If I Never Get Backby Darryl Brock
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. OK. If you buy the premise that a down on his luck newspaper writer, taking a train to Cleveland, wakes up at a station in 1869 - 130 years earlier, you will enjoy this work! He makes acquaintance with, befriends and finally accompanies pro baseball's original team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings through their undefeated inaugural 1869 season. It rings true to the records of the time and offers fascinating eye witness account of events. But beyond that, the adventures are fast and furious and mostly believable. However, some are not. This stopped me from rating this 5 stars instead of 4. Enjoyable, fast paced and recommended for folks who enjoy a good novel that includes baseball, time travel and post Civil War America. (  ) iluvvideo | Oct 24, 2009 |  3440. If I Never Get Back: A Novel, by Darryl Brock (read May 3, 2001) This is a book published first in 1989, and is laid in 1869 and seems authentic as to early baseball, and the first pro team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The device of having the "I" character be of the present day but living in 1869 I found somewhat annoying and fantastic. As I read this I was underimpressed, but at the end I concluded it could have been worse. Immoral behavior by the supposed hero did not aid the book, though one I suppose could say he was hallucinating all the while. (  ) Schmerguls | Nov 23, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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