Inside Pitch: Insiders Reveal How the Ill-Fated Seattle Pilots Got Played into Bankruptcy in One Year

Accurate assessment of the challenges faced by baseball’s one year wonders, the 1969 Seattle Pilots.

It was an easy interesting read.

A quick read. This was a fun book to read to learn more about the fall of the ill-fated Pilots, but was a bit too short. I guess I gauged it against Ball Four, which was much more detailed. This is a nice complement to Bouton’s book if you have read it — it’s an interest in story. price was a bit high for a paperback.

This is the recollections of one young exec fifty years later. It is an enjoyable read, but not a scholarly work.

I was 13 years old when the Seattle Pilots took to the field. My dad, who loved baseball, was thrilled that MLB had arrived in our home town. I was too young back then to understand the significance of this team, either to my dad or the city. But this book helped me to appreciate the impact of a major-league franchise on a city with major-league aspirations. And it made me sentimental for my dad. I wish I could share this book with him. I laughed my way through a lot of the behind-the-scenes anecdotes. I know he would have, too. I also learned from reading Inside Pitch how seriously hard our hometown owners and the players worked to make the franchise a success. If you love baseball, I think you will enjoy this book. Reading it will be a great way to pass the time until today's players can hit the field and we can all hear the cry: "Play ball!"