Waterloo Diamonds: A Midwestern Town and Its Minor Leaque Team

by Richard Panek

Book Overview

A portrait of the end of an era in baseball, industry, and an American town is the story of the minor league team from Waterloo, Iowa, based on travel with the Diamonds and talks with players, owners,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312132093
• ISBN13: 9780312132095
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Diamonds meet their Waterloo

Waterloo, Iowa is about 65 Miles from where the movie "Field of Dreams" was filmed. This book tells a story of a town that is trying to hold onto their little piece of the dream. This is an engrossing, behind the scenes look at a minor-league team struggling to survive in a city that had "pro ball" for 95 years. I found it to be a real page-turner, in the sense that I was rooting for the town of Waterloo to hold on to their piece of the Major Leagues (by the way - the Minor Leagues are "pro-ball", in case you didn't know - I didn't!). I must confess I could not take the suspense, and searched on Google to see if Waterloo still had a minor-league franchise. It also provides a great look at the life of a minor-leaguer in the early 90's - gritty Bull Durham style! Highly recommended!