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| My copy of Flamethrowers: Carlton & Gossage, by Bill Gutman, 1982. (Photo by Mark C. Taylor) |
Why did I recently read the 1982 baseball book Flamethrowers: Carlton & Gossage, by Bill Gutman, when it was probably intended for 6th graders?
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Well, because Steve Carlton is my favorite baseball player. When I found Flamethrowers in a box of books marked 50 cents at one of my favorite used bookstores, I had to get it. There was a book about Steve Carlton that I didn’t even know about!
As you can tell from the title, Flamethrowers focuses on two pitchers who ended up in the Hall of Fame: Steve Carlton and Rich “Goose” Gossage.
Bill Gutman tells us their backstories and takes us through their careers, year by year. Flamethrowers is written well, for what it is, and although I don’t think Gutman interviewed either Steve Carlton or Goose Gossage for the book, he sprinkles it with quotes from newspapers and other sources.
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