The Perfect Swing | James McGirk

Title: The Perfect Swing
Author: James McGirk



I got this for free on Audible. It's advertised as a "Bedtime Story." It's narrated by Nick Jonas, which was the real reason I picked it up--Nick Jonas is freakin' hot. I'm only seven years older than him. That's not too much, is it? 

I am a huge baseball fan, and I currently am going through some major baseball withdrawal (go Braves!), and I played softball when I was young. The book goes through the technicalities of the baseball swings of two of baseball's all-time greatest players: Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. DiMaggio had a technically perfect swing in every imaginable way whereas Williams was constantly adjusting his swing, sometimes in ways that would make batting coaches cringe. In fact, even I was cringing as they would describe some of his batting stances. But his batting success is undisputed. It obviously worked for him.

Nick's voice was very soothing, and I honestly had a hard time keeping my eyes open while listening to it--not because of the content, but because I guess it truly is a "bedtime story." James McGirk wrote the book, but Nick's job was to make the Audible listeners go to sleep. He almost succeeded with me, a notorious insomniac.

There is some very interesting baseball history including in here, but I'm afraid that this book would not be very interesting to someone who is not a hardcore baseball fan or who played baseball (or softball) at a serious level at some point in their lives. On that basis, I give this book three out of five stars.

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