A Long Wait for Another Williams

“A Long Wait For Another Williams”

Sara J. Kuhl, who writes for the Wisconsin State Journal, wrote “A Long Wait for Another Williams” which is of course a review for the book Waiting for Teddy Williams. In her review she focuses on explaining the title of the novel. Teddy Williams being E.A.’s father who only shows up for the summer and E.A. has to wait for him to show up. Kuhl then run through the list of characters, no matter how significant or insignificant they are. She does this in a very rushed unorganized fashion and even makes reference to Gypsy’s car, the Late Great Pasty Cline. With all that aside, Kuhl comes to the conclusion that despite the constant baseball references Howard Frank Mosher writes a great coming of age novel.

Rev. of Waiting for Teddy Williams

In Publishers Weekly, Dan Mandel is confident that if you are a Yankees or just a New York baseball fan, you will not like this book one bit. For a lot of people that is going to be true, there is just so much Red Sox Nation in the novel that it would ruin the book for anyone who really disliked the Sox. Another thing would be, if you didn’t like baseball or just didn’t know baseball this book would be hard to enjoy. The book is just too centered around baseball and wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t understand the sport.

“’Waiting ‘ Makes Pitch for Living Your Dreams”

“Waiting for Teddy Williams offers a thoughtful narrative about dreaming your life and living your dreams.” Amy Stoll of the Rocky Mountain News, writes this in her special article “’Waiting’ Makes Pitch for Living Your Dreams.” Stoll finds that Mosher’s novel is very entertaining but flawed. She goes through the list of characters in her review, not really explaining why she liked the novel until the very end. Stoll only briefly touches upon the fact that the characters feel “flat and incomplete.”

“Teddy Hits a Foul”

“Mosher’s novel tends to rely on the details of the town and its motley crew to carry the story, rather than focusing on E.A’s inner turmoil and emotion as he faces pivotal and life-altering situations. As a result, the novel goes intermittently off course…” Amy Stoll more or less sums it up in those few sentences. Mosher’s novel Waiting for Teddy Williams is a well written coming of age novel that hits just shy of the sweet spot. The story centers around Ethan Allen, E.A. as he’s call, and his life that revolves around baseball and his search for his father. The novel hits off the mark in a few places, such as E.A.’s conversations with the Colonel, which is a statue of one of his old relatives. Another part that isn’t needed is the Red Sox owner’s son is trying to give away the team. The world series at the end of the book, although it was well written and suspenseful, was just too typical and unrealistic.

E.A.’s conversations with the Colonel, were unnecessary. They were merely a creative way but confusing way of getting inside E.A.’s head. He treated the Colonel as a type of father figure and in turn the Colonel would