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Being a great Barry Bonds fan, I wanted to like this book. I truly did. But its flaws were too glaring; it came across as one of those "strike while the iron is hot" books. Such books rarely offer anything of lasting quality.

Author Steve Travers tries to offer readers an insightful look into Barry Bonds The Man. While the attempt is admirable, I couldn't help but come away with the impression that the attempt failed. I came away knowing little to nothing new about what makes Barry Bonds tick. And isn't that why Bonds fans would be drawn to this?

A good portion of the book is fleshed out with pulpish sports writing. It's passable, but too often lacks passion. Some passages scream "written too quickly!" Where was the editor? (...)

Bonds fans should remain patient; a definitive book on this superstar is inevitable. This ain't it.

I decided to post this because of something I just noticed. I read Brent Bozell's book and was going to write a review of it (I liked it). I previously wrote a review of Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, written by my friend Steven Travers, so I checked it out. I was amazed to see all kinds of negative reviews of his book, which sold well and even won an award, I think. Then I read these reviews further and discovered that none of it had anything to do with Steve's book. It turns out Steve writes reviews of books and movies on Amazon himself. Like me, he is pretty conservative. He wrote some reviews about Michael Moore, books and documentaries by him, a few about him, etc.

Anyway, the stuff Travs wrote about Moore was not real flattering of Moore, but it looked to be researched and was basically within the framework of the stuff a lot of people write and say about Moore, who is pretty controversial either way you cut the mustard. It turns out somebody turned the Moore supporters on to Steve, how I'm not sure, but they all decided to give a bunch of negative, fake reviews of Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman. Lord, I could not believe some of the stuff people were saying about my friend's book. Terrible reviews. One stars. Calling him a liar, claiming all kinds of untruths about him, and the Bonds book had nothing to do with politics. One clown apparently wrote more than one of the reviews, and when I looked at other reviews I saw this dingleberry shadowing Steve's reviews, sort of the way a kid repeats what another kid says on a schoolyard. The guy looks like he has several aliases or something and gives Steve "unhelpful" votes even when Steve gives the best review in the lot.

Here is a sports book and people were writing stuff like, "Boycott this book because of what Steve said about Michael Moore." Are you kidding? A guy gives his honest opinion, like it or not, and you're calling for a boycott of some totally separate entity! This in a nutshell is why the left is losing. All they do is protest, strike, complain.

This is the way the left operates. These people just hide and do hit-and-runs. Steve puts his name and email address up there like a man. If you like him or not, and he's opinionated so you might not like him, you know who he is and what he stands for. These people are cowards. Just shut up or, if you have anything to say, be up front about it.

Anyway, I'll say it again. Steve's book was excellent. Write some more of them.

And, I'm still not much of a fan. But, after reading this book I began to understand why Bonds has been a misunderstood player and person for many years. I always knew that Bonds was a great player, but this book forces me to acknowledge just how great a player and interesting person Bonds really is. If you're going to have one book on your shelf about the greatest player of this generation (and maybe any generation) this is the one!