Review: I loved the Baseball and the strong female character...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
I'm a big baseball fan and I just love movies and books on America's favorite past time. Moneyball by Michael Lewis is one of my favorite books and I loved the movie too. So I approached this book, “Game Changer” by Collette West, as more of a baseball fan than as a reader of romance books. The romance in this book is great, but I think women would enjoy it a lot more. But that's a good thing because that means that there's something in this book for everyone, men and women.I thought the character development was highly realistic. Baseball players, coaches, the media and fans actually behave in the same way as described in the book. The politics of baseball as presented in the book is so real that it could be a part of a great non-fiction book on the game.The best part of the book was that writer Collette presents an intriguing scenario – a talented female athlete as a part of a professional male baseball team. In our society we are conditioned to view women in sports as cheerleaders rather than as respectable athletes and sportswomen, and we certainly devalue female athletic accomplishments in comparison with that of male athletes.  So the premise of the book is highly interesting, and something that is entirely plausible – we have female NASCAR drivers, competing on equal terms with men, why not female baseball players?But things won't be easy for women who take up this challenge as the obstacles placed in the way of Sasha, the stubborn and courageous young female protagonist of this book, make amply clear. The world of sports is a highly male chauvinistic society and changing that takes a lot of doing.But Collette has her heart in the right place, and one must applaud her for that. 5 stars for an entertaining book that presents a great idea!