Harold Peterson (1) (1939–)

When I read this book in 1994, the plucky and somewhat dismissive semi-hermit recalled to me Walden and its author Henry David Thoreau. Like Thoreau, this man had to make it town for supplies, etc. occasionally. However, for this living anachronism it was a rocky trek, not the "stroll" it was for Thoreau. Like a connection to the Transcendentalist Movement, this man was proud of his self-sufficiency and the study in solitude and self-reliance compelled me to gift it to the only like-minded show more person I knew: Ernest Mann: show less

Being a life of Alexander Cartwright, founder of the Knickerbocker Ball Club and baseball's first codifier. This is a fine story well-told; the only slight drawback being that a life of Cartwright strictly defined would be a very thin book and the author necessarily takes off cross-country quite a bit.

Fun to read and informative, but hardly authoritative given its lack of documentation.

The man was definitely a character but this book doesn't do him justice. I got bored rather quickly with the story and especially the author,