Wednesday, April 25, 2018
SSR Quarter Three
The book i chose to read for the third quarter was called "Baseball At War". I picked out this book because in history we are learning about world war 2 and this book talks about events in baseball during world war 2. The book "Baseball At War" in my opinion is a good and a intresting book not just because its about baseball but it talks about how life was at the time. The book has many stories and situations in which people went through. For example during World War 2 the MLB was losing all its players because many were enlisting in the war. The only people who stayed playing baseball during the war were the veterens of the game or the people who couldnt go to the war. In my opinion if this book were to be talked about more it could be read in 100 years from now because it talks about the history of World War 2 and baseball. I can gaurantee that people will still be reading baseball books in 100 years because baseball is "americas past time".Lastly, this book was very intresting and i learned alot more about baseball and what baseball was like during the war.
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I like the fact that you read a book that mixed baseball and war at the same time. I never actually thought about people playing sports during wars because I always thought people had no energy to do anything since their lives were at risk. I feel like people will always be interested in history, in fact a hundred years from now people are going to be talking about the sports events that happened "back then."
ReplyDeleteThough I don't know if I'd personally choose to read this book, I do find its overall concept rather intriguing. It tells of the lesser-known side effects war had on culture, which I think makes this book particularly fascinating, given impact of war on leisure and entertainment wasn't particularly touched upon while we were learning about World War II. I think I'd be interesting to see how the war impacted the sport's popularity as well, knowing those on the home front likely sought distraction from the anxieties wrought by global unrest.
ReplyDeleteI would be very interested to read this book just to have more knowledge about how the war effected the lives of everyone. Specifically the baseball players.
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