Review: The Stark Truth by Jayson Stark

Review: The Stark Truth by Jayson Stark

The subtitle of this book is “The Most Overrated & Underrated Players in Baseball History”. Stark lists the 5 most overrated and underrated players at each position, splitting pitchers into right-handed starters, left-handed starters and relief pitchers, and splitting the outfield into their three different positions. As always, Stark’s baseball writing is both entertaining and informative. He makes sound arguments on the players he put on each list and it is a breeze to read. The one player on his list that surprised me most was Dizzy Dean, who was fourth on his list for the most overrated right-handed pitchers. I looked up Dean’s career statistics, and it turns out Stark was right on. I never realized that Dean had such a short career. His career may have been cut short due to injury, but even so, it certainly does not look like a Hall-of-Famer’s career.

I enjoyed this book and I recommend it to baseball fans interested in light reading.