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I just finished Don Drysdale: Up And In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend, by Mark Whicker.

Among the many topics covered by the book were Drysdale's intimidation of batters, his extreme competitiveness, his experience throwing the spitter (which he admitted to throwing 5-20 times a game), the three World Series championships the Dodgers won with Drysdale (1959, 1963, 1965), the 1962 pennant race with the Giants, his joint holdout with Koufax, the controversy over playing after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Drysdale’s scoreless streak.

I give this book a B+.

Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a B+ equates to 4 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

I finished reading this on November 1, 2024.