Book review: in memory of the 2013 MN Twins

One more baseball book – title is: “100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die” by Alex Halstad.

Sorry, but this one doesn’t cut it. Although it has the variety and is comprehensive enough about the Twins’ 50-plus years, it lacks on three points:

• Repetitive – when topics overlap, too much detail is repeated in multiple places. For example, a player’s performance in the World Series would be repeated in both essays.
• Organization – it probably was intentional, but the topics jump around as if drawn from a hat. An organized outline might have helped alleviate the repetitiveness as well.
• Writing – although clean, it just isn’t quite interesting enough. Reads like a book report.

Instead, I would recommend Steve Ascheburner’s “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”

Although a few years older and thus pre-Target Field, it covers much of the same material without the flaws above. I own a copy because I left it out in the rain on vacation and the library made me buy it.