A Player to be Maimed Later by John Billheimer

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a fun, quick read about a couple of ball players, forever linked though their polar opposite fortunes in the big leagues — one destined for the Hall of Fame, the other for the skids — and the shady incident that kept them bound from their days being called up to the big club.
I’m a sucker for a good baseball story, of course, whether it’s reading or writing them, from Matt Christopher to Sidd Finch to Michael Joyce’s “Going the Distance” to Fenway Fiction in all its incarnations.
I found the wardrobe inventory a little tedious, at times (“George wore a yellow shirt with green buttons, a pink tie, purple slacks, dress shoes in black and a rakish orange cap” type of stuff.) and some of the explication was a little heavy-handed, but, like I said, I had fun reading this one and can’t complain that I spent a few hours with this story.



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