Review: I highly recommend this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Baseball fans and law enthusiasts, I highly recommend that you read A PITCH FOR JUSTICE by Harold Kasselman. I recently read this novel while on a 10-day, guided vacation tour. As I got deeper into the book, I couldn't wait for the guide to stop talking so that I could continue reading. I felt a little guilty not watching out the window all the time, but not guilty enough to make me stop reading entirely.Kasselman also provided some interesting side stories on several of the characters in order to break up the legalese and baseball jargon. These stories helped make me care more about the individuals involved rather than just viewing the book as a documentary. Overall this book was a great first novel! I look forward to reading his future books.Now on to the more documentary portions of the novel: The concept of considering a pitched ball a lethal weapon put a new spin on how baseball might be played in the future. It also made me think about the other high-contact sports like football, ice hockey, and rugby. Will we start having the police on the sidelines waiting to arrest any player that gets too rough?I don't think reasonable sports fans would ever want the laws to go in that direction. Roughness is all part of the game, in my opinion. I'm okay with having the referees/umpires take care of penalizing players for their actions. Professional players get paid huge salaries to take the risk that they might have a career-ending injury at any time. They have access to all kinds of training and protective equipment, if used properly, to minimize their odds of severe injuries. Having said this, I still wish that everyone would remember that these sports are still just games. No one should ever die because of playing a game.