Seinsoth The RoughandTumble Life of a Dodger eBook Steven K Wagner
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In 1968, Bill Seinsoth overcame a lifetime of adversity to become the best college baseball player in the world. Few were surprised. After all, as a high school senior and the top prep pitcher in the country his team won the California state championship, and he was named MVP. He attended USC, where his team won an NCAA title and he was chosen College World Series MVP. During the summers, he played for the elite Alaska Goldpanners college baseball team and again was MVP. Finally, he was chosen in the first round of baseball's draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers. A big, strong, handsome, confident and personable slugger, he was to have become the team's first baseman long into the future. However, storm clouds formed. As he drove across the California desert toward home following his first season in the Dodgers organization a gust of wind blew Seinsoth's car over, killing him. A carton of bats emblazoned with his name may have delivered the fatal blow as his car flipped multiple times.
This book chronicles the incredible life of Bill Seinsoth, whose death while en route to watch his good friend O.J. Simpson's final preseason football game a week before the running back's NFL debut paved the way for Steve Garvey to become a star first baseman with the Dodgers. The book includes interviews with former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, college coach of the century Rod Dedeaux, and former major leaguers Ron Cey (who was supposed to ride with Seinsoth but who backed out at the last minute), Jim Barr and Bill "Spaceman" Lee. While pure entertainment, this book is important to readers as a road map for overcoming adversity and achieving greatness.
Seinsoth The RoughandTumble Life of a Dodger eBook Steven K Wagner
Its is hard to rate this book because the subject life was too short. The writer has covered all the bases in Bill's life. Even those that knew Bill will learn things they didn't know about him from this biography. But, in the end we are left dissatisfied and wondering why a life on the verge of almost unimaginable success and popular acclaim was ended too soon. Seinsoth would have been a truly great professional baseball player. His life deserves to be remembered.Product details
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Seinsoth The RoughandTumble Life of a Dodger eBook Steven K Wagner Reviews
This book interested me as a baseball fan, a Dodger fan, and a local SoCal baseball fan. This is a detailed look at the unfulfilled promising career of Bill Seinsoth. I was left with a sadness at not being able to experience a possible star for the Dodgers. Would Seinsoth have made a difference for the Dodgers in the '74,'77, & '78 World Series? We'll never know. This book is a quick and interesting read. I enjoyed it.
I grew up in Arcadia, was a childhood friend of Bill, and a high school basketball teammate. I was privileged to watch his incredible talent as a baseball player first hand, and have told the stories of his greatness to many since. Even after all these years I frequently reflect on the enormity of his loss just as he was entering the next phase of his life, and the haunting refrain of what might have been. More than his loss as a baseball star is the deep sadness of what Bill missed in a life not lived, as a son, husband, father and friend. Thanks to the author for telling Bill's story so well and allowing us who knew him to feel his presence once again.
This very personal account of a talented young man whose life was cut short captivates the reader from the very beginning. The author draws the reader into William Seinsoth's life by recounting events, interviews and even Seinsoth's own words. You develop an emotional relationship with Seinsoth which allows you to experience his successes and his tragedies. Seinsoth touches lives throughout his life and will touch yours. A quick exceptional read.
I grew up just a few doors down from Bill Seinsoth...I remember when I was young watching Bill and his father throwing the baseball back and forth...so of course when this book came out it was a must...I was not disappointed. It is a well researched and well written book...an excellent read...
Seinsoth is a pleasant read though there is tragedy and adversity as major themes. Steve skillfully weaves a tale of goodness and excellence as he draws you into magic that is baseball. Bill Seinsoth's story is one of incredible talent and dedication that is tragically ended prematurely, but the telling brings you up close and personal with a host of baseball greats, some of the best the game has ever seen. Steve has a way of creating a narrative that makes you feel like you were a part of it, like you experienced it. It is a great tribute to a great player and a great family and all the people that made their story great.
Steve Wagner has written a captivating story of the remarkable life, talent and promise of Bill Seinsoth, which ended tragically in the desert. Wagner carefully draws the reader into a fascinating story of Seinsoth's life, and the narrative is made all the more interesting by all of the direct quotes from Seinsoth, coaches, sports notables and friends. Like Wagner's last book, "Perfect, The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball's Greatest One-Game Wonder," the author has demonstrated a remarkable sense for what makes a previously little known player into a gripping story. Great reading, and I can't wait for his next book!
Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, makes you want to connect with a ball player's life. While in football, you'll remember the great catch in this or that game or the Hail Mary in the waning seconds of the fourth quarter. In college basketball's March Madness, you'll be riveted by the last-second three-pointer or the missed call at the end of the first half. But then memories fade. You'll ask who was it that made that finger-tip catch? Or you'll remember a player's name but wonder whether he played for Duke or North Carolina.
In baseball you see a player not only as he knocks dirt from his cleats at the plate or as he dives for a sinking fly ball. You'll also see his reactions to a called third strike or the double that brought home the tying run. You decide that, yes, you want to know about who this man is, where he came from, how he got there--to the majors.
But beyond a Sunday Supplement that gives you some particulars about how so-and-so came up from the minors in such-and-such year, you almost never find out much about a player's early years. Stephen K. Wagner, in Seinsoth, changes that, detailing for you the life of a player that I for one never heard of.
As a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, I'm familiar with Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddox and more recently Chris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo. But from the first pages of Wagner's book, I wanted to get to know this Dodger. Wagner traces Seinsoth's path from his high school playing days through his time as a minor leaguer with the Modesto Reds and his trip to Bakersfield to join the Dodgers Organization. Throughout, Wagner acquainted me not only with the ball player but the man. It's a journey well worth making.--Karen Sandrick
Its is hard to rate this book because the subject life was too short. The writer has covered all the bases in Bill's life. Even those that knew Bill will learn things they didn't know about him from this biography. But, in the end we are left dissatisfied and wondering why a life on the verge of almost unimaginable success and popular acclaim was ended too soon. Seinsoth would have been a truly great professional baseball player. His life deserves to be remembered.
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