Shohei Ohtani: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Star Pitchers

by Clayton Geoffreys

Learn the Inspiring Story of the Los Angeles Angels' Star Pitchers, Shohei Ohtani! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys.

In Shohei The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Star Pitchers, you will learn the story of one of baseball's most popular stars, Shohei Ohtani. Well known for his skills in both pitching and batting, Ohtani is often compared to baseball legends such as Babe Ruth and Bullet Rogan. Some baseball fans and pundits even have considered him to be the greatest player of all time.

In 2018, Shohei Ohtani made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Angels. Since then, he has accomplished a lot. At the time of this writing, Ohtani has been named an All-Star twice, while also winning a Silver Slugger Award and being named American League MVP in 2021. Ohtani is one of the most popular active MLB players and with good reason. With his passion and energy, Ohtani has garnered fans from all around the world.

Pick up this unauthorized baseball biography today to learn the inspiring story behind baseball star, Shohei Ohtani! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages.

This baseball book explores what makes Shohei Ohtani great, and what we can learn from his hard work.

Here is a preview of what is inside this Shohei Ohtani 1: Early Life and ChildhoodChapter 2: High School CareerChapter 3: The Nito-RyuChapter 4: Taking Center StageChapter 5: The AL Rookie of the YearChapter 6: Greatness InterruptedChapter 7: A Season Like No OtherChapter 8: Simply SensationalChapter 9: Personal LifeChapter 10: Future and LegacyAn excerpt from this Shohei Ohtani The Angel Stadium of Anaheim crowd came to their feet, ready to roar again for one of the last home games of the year. It was September 29th, and there were still a few games left in October, but they were of little consequence since both teams had been out of contention the entire summer. Although, in the case of the visiting Oakland Athletics, it might have been more accurate to admit that they did not have a chance from square one. The Angels had at least ended April atop the AL West. The Houston Astros, perennial pennant winners, had been lurking not so subtly in the background, but it still gave hope to a fan base that had been deprived of playoff baseball for eight years.

Their early season hopes had been tethered to two players. One of whom was now patrolling center field after having returned from a back disorder that for a moment seemed to put his season in peril; Mike Trout had been drafted by the Angels well over a decade ago and had since won three MVPs while being widely regarded as the best player of his generation. The other player, meanwhile, was probably the sole reason anyone was watching this game.

Shohei Ohtani was making his final home start of the season and prepared to fire a 3-2 pitch to A’s third baseman Vimael Machin. Halos fans groaned in disappointment as they watched the lefty batter foul away a slider that darted down and in. But they were soon satisfied as Machin waved at the next pitch, a slider that fluttered up in the zone for the right-hander’s ninth strikeout of the night.

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137 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 31, 2022

Reviews

[Trevor Raichura · Rating 3 out of 5]

If it was not about Shohei, I might have given it 2 stars. Nothing about the book is terrible, but honestly, it is just a recap of every single time Shohei made history. Nothing in this book is new. The author also has a proclivity for leaning heavily on his thesaurus and uses too many random (and poorly timed) sobriquets for Ohtani. Like somewhere in the 2021 part, he refers to him as the "ex-NPB star" - which feels wrong. There's also a lot of "last year" or "two years ago" when it should be "two years prior" since the whole book is written in the past tense.

Other things that irked me included calling the Japanese pro league "the NPB" most of the time but just "NPB" at other times (which is the correct way to refer to it). Other things included talking about Ohtani having graduated from high school before it actually happened - I bet the author thought the school year was the same as that in the USA, which it is not. Calling Ohtani the "soon-to-be-27-year-old" in March, when his birthday is July 5, is also kind of misleading.

All in all, there were simply too many interruptions fawning on Shohei instead of focusing on the action. There was a lot of repetition of facts and references to certain people (once you've established that David Fletcher is the second baseman, for example, you do not need to use both second baseman and David Fletcher again and again within the same page or two). There were parts that definitely were not linear, with random facts and dates thrown in awkwardly, interrupting the flow of the narrative.

It seems to me Mr. Geoffreys cranks these books out quite quickly, which explains that they are not very professional-sounding. Is anyone proofreading, fact-checking, and making suggestions to improve the flow? Those three things would make the book much more enjoyable - and probably 20 pages shorter after removing all the repeated facts and superfluous "first-ever ___ to ___" mentions on nearly every page of the book.

Last dig. The title does not do the man justice. One of Baseball's Star PITCHERS? Try "Baseball's One and Only Two-Way Player"!