This was a wonderful book about the greatest baseball player that has ever played the game, Ty Cobb. The story is well told and I appreciate any author that realizes Ty Cobb is better than Babe Ruth. I believe any real Ty Cobb fan would enjoy this book.

The texts aare quite complete, but they don't really speek about his youth. Theree are a few photos, quite rare ones.There are a few mistakes.

This book is quite interessing, you learn details about RFK's life. There are a few photos (quite rare ones). The author likes RFK, it's just annoying that there are a few mistakes. I don't understand the book's name, there isn't more than usually about RFK's youth. Quite a good buy.

This was a book I thoroughly enjoyed as a child. Schoor does a good job of providing a rich background on the late Senator's life. His gift for voice and scenarios makes for an excellent read. I liked the way he described young Bobby's interactions with his siblings. In tracking this boy's progress, one can almost see the man he would later become. One can actually feel present during the growth and development of the young Robert Kennedy.

Schoor writes in a way that compliments the intelligence of his young audience. He is clear and straightforward and his use of language is as well. He includes such information as the late Senator's report cards, his arduous academic career and his political professional career. The young boy who showed such zeal on the football field was revisited in the man who pursued Teamsters and Mafiosi zealously. The 4-year-old who flung himself into Nantucket Sound, determined to learn to swim became the man who, 35 years later and a Senator, would climb a previously unscaled mountain named after President Kennedy in Canada. Acrophobic his entire life, Robert Kennedy would, in March of 1965 confront his worst fear and climb a mountain out of love for his slain brother, the late President Kennedy.

I also liked the way Schoor included the late Senator's interactions with his children. One especially adorable story is one where he and daughter Kerry go sledding together and Kerry tells him not to put snow on his cut head because she didn't want him "using up all the snow!" The Senator was clearly a man for everyone; in adult life he became the voice of the disenfranchised.

Schoor does an excellent job of remaining objective about the Senator; he also treats him with respect. Since this work is aimed at older children, the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy is not rehashed in full detail. Schoor gives a minimal description of the night of June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles. At no time is any graphic description given. Schoor closes this work by musing along with the world on what might have been had Robert Kennedy not been killed in 1968.

it was o.k and it didn't put me to sleep

Way better than you'd probably expect of a sports biography, especially from the era when this was written (1956). Good account of DiMaggio's early history and family background, very good blow-by-blow of the 56-game hitting streak. Vivid accounts of Joe's sufferings from injuries and dramatic comebacks from them. There are many direct quotes from players, including Joe -- not commentaries on events and controversies (as we'd get today), but just routine things that they said while just hanging out. The book has some quaint faults that are expectable in a sports book from that era. At times, meaningless details are mentioned as though they were important and of interest just because they pertain to baseball heroes; for example, we learn that Bill Dickey ordered tea and toast for breakfast. And sometimes the writer seems to believe that the main element of interest about an event was the question of what the newspaper writers would say ("scribes," he calls them). But, the book has an overall grace and dignity befitting its subject. Overall, worthwhile and even somewhat revealing. I first read this book as a child, and it was somewhat responsible for my becoming hooked on baseball and its history.

This is a book for a true Packer fan. It talks about the career of one of the all time great Packers. I really enjoyed this book being a die hard Packer fan. When entering college there was the fear of being drafted for the Koren War thankfully he wasn't and went on to have a great career as a Green Bay Packer. Bart born in 1952 played at Alabama before playing for the Pack. He a good career there winning several games. I reccomend thid book to any die hard Packer fan.

this is a small biography of young John F Kennedy, there are a few rares photos. it's sometimes boring but complete. some details are strange but it's good at all.
I suggest it to all Jack Kennedy fans.

The sports world needs a definitive photo book about Mantle. This isn't it. The photos are very poor reproductions of familiar images found clearly reproduced in other books. Here, they look like 50th generation copies. I returned the book without reading it but noticed that a sequence of Mantle's great catch in Larson's perfect game is described as a catch against Boston! Schoor, a quality writer, should be ashamed of allowing his name to put on this disaster. Charging $36 for this work is a crime.