Comments on: Snake Jazz by Dave Baldwin http://www.baseballbookreview.com/?p=73 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:11:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Pat Lagreid http://www.baseballbookreview.com/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-27 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:26:55 +0000 http://baseballbookreview.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-27 The picked nit is welcomed — a memoir would definitely be a more fitting description of the book.

Dave certainly believes in a certain way of bringing up children as he describes in the early portions of the book. There is lots of discussion currently about the role that sports play in the lives of children and how parents and coaches treat them and encourage them to grow and develop as people. Dave makes his point early on in the book – which seemed a bit odd to me in that I wasn’t expecting to read that in a book such as his.

Thanks for the comments!

]]> By: nlperca1 http://www.baseballbookreview.com/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-28 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:21:37 +0000 http://baseballbookreview.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-28 To pick a small nit, it’s a memoir (a subset of the autobiography classification) as it deals almost exclusively with baseball rather than other aspects of Dave’s multi-faceted life. An interesting aspect of the book is Dave’s recurring references to Dr. Carol Dweck’s research and how the ‘growth mindset’ and ‘fixed mindset’ affected his career. It is obvious that Dave desires to pass his hard won wisdom along to parents of the new generation of sports participants.

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