Josh Pager

The next author to speak was Josh Pager, and I enjoyed his reading the most. This surprised me because the only sport’s book that I have ever found remotely interesting was Seabiscuit, and that was hard for me to read too. I felt like I was in story time in Elementary School when he read, because I had to sit on the floor Indian style since there weren’t any seats left. Even though his story was nonfiction it felt like fiction and was interesting. He talked about many things in the story and how they related to that historic baseball game, like The Simpsons, Larry King, and John Steinbeck. He was reading one quote out of the book, and stopped and said, “I cut out the part about and my dead father.” This was interesting because, I realized when writing sometimes you need to edit out offensive or unnecessary pieces. I liked hearing about the part about talking to Bobby Thompson. However, it also made me sad because Bobby had lived his entire life with that lie and finally admitted the truth pretty much on his deathbed. Josh was a good story teller because he had somewhat acted out what Bobby was doing when he was talking to him. He also said that Bobby did cheated but it was because his manager told him too; and so that gives Bobby more pity than being labeled just a liar. During the questions Josh said something very interesting and I loved how he put it, he said, “Sometimes it is good to not know so much about the things you love.” I thought this was neat because he loved baseball, and now he knew about that game and all the secrets about it.