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Homestand
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper
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A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into whats right and wrong with modern Americawritten by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York. "Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league baseball team.Washington Post "Will reveal more about the prospects for America than 100 news stories about politics, and will be a lot more fun.James Fallows, bestselling co-author of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of AmericaWhat happens when a minor league teamthe heart and soul of a Rust Belt town in western New Yorkis shut down by the billionaires who run Major League Baseball?Batavia, New Yorkbetween Rochester and Buffalohosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020along with forty-one other minor league teamsthe town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players. As MLB considers further cuts and private equity buys up what remains, the mom-and-pop operations once prevalent in baseball are endangered. But for now, the sights and sounds of local baseball live on in Bataviacheap draft beer and hot dogs, starry-eyed kids seeking autographs, and breathtaking summer sunsets.With a vibrant, unforgettable cast of charactersfrom a librarian and her best friend whose relationship deepens with every crepuscular hour they spend together in the bleachers, to the former hockey brawler-turned team owner who greets regulars while working the concession stand, to the iconoclastic writer with a contagious love for his struggling hometownBardenwerpers Homestand exposes the beating heart of small town America, friends and neighbors coming together as the crack of the bat echoes in the summer twilight.
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Susanita
Susanita
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper
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My reading intentions for #jumpstartsummer were a bit ambitious! I got a lot of laundry done and did a little organizing, but I only finished the tagged book today. I‘ve started the other three but don‘t seem to be in the right frame of mind for any of them right now.

As with @Bookwormjillk this book didn‘t hit quite right. I liked it but not as much as I thought I would considering the topic, and it was longer than it needed to be. ⬇️

tagged users iconTheSpineView
Susanita It would be interesting to read this book in “real time” along with the rhythm of the short season, but reading it over the span of a few days I thought he repeated himself a bit. And yes, I know MLB has a lot of issues around corporate ownership and capitalism, but I think he laid it on a little thick. I did, however, appreciate the reference to Charlie Slowes of the Nationals radio team. 5d
Bookwormjillk Always a disappointment when a book isn‘t what I think it should be ⚾️⚾️⚾️ 5d
TheSpineView I'm a mood reader. So I get the "right frame" mind thing. Thanks for joining in. 4d
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Susanita
Susanita
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper
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I‘m not reading this now for #hyggehourreadathon but I was reading it earlier. Better than reading the book, I‘m talking about it with a friend of my husband‘s we joined for dinner. I‘m sitting in the ghost seat in front of a column!

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TheBookHippie Oh fun!! 1w
AllDebooks Lovely x 7d
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Susanita
Susanita
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper
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These are the books I have out from the library and want to read for the #jumpstartsummer readathon. I also have one or two on my shelf that I might read in addition to or instead. 😎

Tonight I‘ll be at a ballgame and brought the tagged book to read beforehand if I don‘t see any of my friends. Otherwise it‘s laundrypalooza and maybe a little swimming (since I picked up the pool passes today) and of course reading.

tagged users iconTheSpineView
TheSpineView They all look good. Enjoy 1w
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Bookwormjillk
Bookwormjillk
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper
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Mehso-so

This book had everything I love to read about: baseball, the shrinking middle class, and toxic politics. However it just didn‘t hit for me. Pretty cover though.

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