Title/Author:
“Baltimore
Orioles IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom” by Tucker Elliot
Tags:
Baseball,
trivia, Orioles
Published:
October
13, 2013
Length:
148 pages
Rating:
3 1/2 of 5
stars (good)
Review:
Books on
sports trivia can be tricky to review as a reviewer may not know much about the
topic and therefore may not know the accuracy of the information as
presented. I found this to be my
dilemma when a review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher who
requested that I review it. Feeling up
to a challenge, I decided to give it a go and also contacted the author in case
I had any questions.
While I
have not followed the Baltimore Orioles closely so some of the material would
not be known to me, I did find that the book had some very good narrative
pieces and was organized well. I felt
it was clever that the questions were divided up by topics and each topic was
an “inning.” For example, the first
inning was about numbers worn by Orioles players. There were 20 questions on this topic, with
10 questions asked in the “top of the first” and the other 10 questions asked
in the “bottom of the first.” There were
10 such innings for a total of 200 questions.
The difficulty of the questions, at least to this serious baseball fan
who follows a different team, ranged from fairly easy to having no clue to the
answer without searching Google.
Without
doing a through fact check on the validity of each question, I did match the
answers to the questions I did not know back to the question to at least see if
they made sense from what I did know or recall. While this may not a totally accurate way to
verify information, I did find it useful in order to get a feel if this was a
trivia book that would be useful to baseball fans, especially Orioles fans, and
I found it to be that. If I did want
more information on a question, I contacted the author who was very responsive
and helpful.
Elliot has
written several of these trivia books on different teams and is continuing to
do so. That is good news for baseball
fans, for if you like trivia books on your favorite team, this format makes
reading them and answering the questions easy and fun. I recommend this book for both Orioles fans
and hard-core baseball trivia buffs.
Did I skim?
No.
Pace of the book:
I was able
to go through the questions pretty quickly.
The organization of the topics helped with that, along with the answers
being listed at the end of each half inning instead of the back of the book.
Do I recommend?
Yes to
Orioles fans, as they would enjoy this book best. It would be also good for trivia buffs who
want to win the next round of bets with their buddies for some lesser-known
facts.
Book Format Read:
E-Book
(PDF)
Buying Links:
No comments:
Post a Comment