Highly recommended | Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken...

A story within a story | Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams | Gary Moore

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	• Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams Gary Moore Savas Beatie, 2006 - 324 pages average customer review:based on 104 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a good read

I really enjoyed this story; I have always liked baseball, but now have a new appreciation for catchers. I learned a lot about WWII and submarines that I had never really thought about before. The story flows well and is fast-paced. Some of the descriptions do seem a tad repetitive but overall, I would recommend it!

Highly recommended

Wow! What a story! Well-written and easy to follow, Moore's first book tells a very engaging story about baseball and much, much more. Recommended to just about anyone!

A story within a story

If you enjoy baseball or history, this is a story for you. Otherwise, you should read it anyway! Playing With The Enemy is the story of a young man's dreams realized, destroyed and realized again. Yet in the end the dream is different from the original one. Few people get a second chance at anything; Gene Moore got two second chances. He made the best of the one that counted the most. This story is above all else a story of the human experience in facing adversity and overcoming it with sheer desire.

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Every Bat is Unique

Gene Moore had it right, every bat is unique, like no other. And this book is like no other I have read. If you don't believe in time travel, just crack the cover, and you will be transported to a simpler time. This book should delight rural America, war history buffs and baseball fans alike. But the real story inside the story is all about our collective journey in life. You can learn a lot about life in this book. I covered this one in record time, only stopping to eat and sleep. Gary nailed this one for sure, you will not be disappointed; you'll probably be motivated to live better - in many ways.

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A WINNER ON SO MANY LEVELS

Received this book as a Christmas gift from my daughter. I did not get to read it right away, However for a book to read on a long flight my wife read it first.When she landed she was so enthused about the book she said "I am not a WWII buff or a fanatic about baseball in general but YOU HAVE TO READ THIS WHEN I RETURN" Fortunately I had jury duty on her return with the book and in two days I was clutching this book like the The Holy Grail
I wanted it to begin again. Having had a baseball dad with a very heroic WWII past, the story hit me on so many levels I was teary eyed by page 24 .What was so ironic is I kept relating to the relationship that I also had with my dad , a man of humble mystery and his own reluctance to think or talk anymore about "what if..? He was stopped also in his passion to play major league baseball but lacked the higher skills needed and then WWII arrived and he was off to Anzio , Normandy and Africa where he too witnessed the exibition baseball games in person. I had to immediatly correspond with the author which Gary so graciuosly did reply .Then the irony started to occur we are nearly neighbors 15 minutes apart and have crossed paths over 20 years of business ventures and travels several times. I knew his father but for business not baseball or war stories.
Gary is a very gifted writer to say the least and the story, the charactors, the times ,the events are an amazing interaction of historical events. Definately left me wanting more.

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