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  • Essay / Teddy Williams hits a foul - 964

    "A long wait for another Williams"Sara J. Kuhl, writing for the Wisconsin State Journal, wrote "A long wait for another Williams", which is of course a review for the book Waiting for Teddy Williams. In her review, she focuses on explaining the title of the novel. Teddy Williams is EA's dad who only shows up for the summer and EA has to wait for him to show up. Kuhl then goes through the list of characters, no matter how important or insignificant they are. She does this in a very rushed and disorganized manner and even references Gypsy's car, the Late Great Pasty Cline. With all that aside, Kuhl comes to the conclusion that despite the constant baseball references, Howard Frank Mosher is writing a great coming-of-age novel.Rev. from Waiting for Teddy WilliamsIn Publishers Weekly, Dan Mandel is convinced that if you're a Yankees or just a New York baseball fan, you won't like this book at all. For a lot of people this is going to be true, there is so much Red Sox Nation in the novel that it would ruin the book for anyone who really didn't like the Sox. Another thing would be if you didn't like baseball or just didn't know baseball, this book would be hard to enjoy. The book is just too focused on baseball and would make no sense if you didn't understand the sport. dreams." Amy Stoll of the Rocky Mountain News, writes this in her special article "'Wait' takes stock of living your dreams. Stoll finds Mosher's novel very entertaining but flawed. She goes over the list of characters in her review, without really explaining why she liked the novel until the very end. Stoll only briefly touches on the fact that the characters feel “flat and incomplete.” turmoil and emotion as he faces crucial life-changing situations As a result, the novel goes off the rails intermittently…” Amy Stoll more or less sums it up in these. a few sentences..