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Clifton Blue Parker : Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons:

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An Oustanding Book About an Underrated Great PlayerBy A ReviewerThis is an excellent book (and the first that I'm aware of) about the late great Al Simmons of the Phila. Athletics. Simmons was the clean up hitter on the great A's championship teams of 1929-1931. He over .380 four times. The author describes Simmons' baseball career in interesting detail, and also provides a fair amount of information about his post playing life and personal life. Simmons had a complex personality, hard driven and tough in the style of Cobb, but with a sensitive side at times. The author devotes a sepate chapter to analyzing Simmons' baseball achievements, including the use of the newer sabermetrics. This includes an analysis of why Simmons' batting may have declined so much; after compiling an average of .360 after 9 years (second only to Cobb and ahead of Hornsby), Simmons second half was such that he fell to .334 lifetime, still an oustanding average. I first heard of Simmons from my father, who said that while Al stayed around too long, at his peak, he was the best hitter he ever saw. The book demonstrates Simmons' standing as an all time great- in his peak years.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A well-researched but mediocre bioBy Ray AnselmoI've been hesitant to write a review for this book - I've met the author, and we're Facebook friends, and there aren't a lot of people out there writing books about the largely forgotten Hall of Fame baseball players of the interwar period. Parker has written three and is reportedly working on a fourth (dealing with ). He's an incredible researcher, and really knows how to dig up interesting facts about these players.Unfortunately, great research does not equal great storytelling. The prose is by and large dull - this happened, then this did, then this did. There's not much effort to bring the times Simmons played in to life. Most of all, it's incredibly repetitive, sometimes making a simple, minor point twice in the same paragraph. By page 50, you already know that Al had an odd batting stance, that he was from , that his real last name was Szymanski - there's really no need to keep repeating those things every other page for the rest of the book. A good editor could have taken this 251-page book, cut it down to 180 without removing a single fact or insight, and made it a much more interesting read. (And it's apparently an endemic problem; I checked out Parker's book on Paul and , and gave up after ten pages that contained six or seven pages' worth of information.)So while I think Al Simmons was a great player who lived an interesting life, I can't recommend this book - a yeoman's job of research ended up leading to a pretty boring book. Sorry, Clif.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Bucketfoot AlBy Mike WelchGreat story about a great baseball player. He is one you don't here too much about but during his peak years he was unstoppable for the A's

Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer. While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not an easy man to like--for those competing against him or with him--and he seemed to play to the level of team expectation. Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days.

About the AuthorClifton Blue Parker is a magazine editor at the University of California, Davis, and a former newspaper journalist and Congressional press secretary. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), he lives in Davis, California.

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