The Cloudbuster Nine

by Anne R. Keene
Category: "Sports"
Pages:408
Year of Publication:2020
Date Added:03/12/2019
Date Read:04/11/2025
Notes:Subtitle: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II

The author discovered that her recently dead father was the bat boy for a baseball team made up of Navy pilots in training. The team included Major Leaguers, like Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky. But the book is mostly about the formation of the training program — the officers and coaches, with scattered bits about the life of her father.
My Rating: 3

Reviews for The Cloudbuster Nine

Review - Cloudbuster Nine, The

I can deal with a book that gets lost in the weeks once in a while. This book was all weeds. The author wanders all over the place, jumping from person to person, from time to time, with no organization and no point. There was very little about baseball or the baseball players. Perhaps, if well organized and edited, there may have been enough for a decent magazine article. In addition to frequent redundancy, malapropism, and non-sequiturs, the author, who also read the book, used voice inflections that were completely unrelated to sentence structure, flow, or meaning. I listened to it on recording and got to the point about halfway through when I just couldn't take it any more.
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