Imperfect

An Improbable Life
Jim Abbot and Tim Brown - 2013 Random House Publishing

What impressed me most about Imperfect is how well it is written for an athlete's autobiography.  This may seem irrelevant but, considering there are numerous autobiographies of athletes in which the author stayed a little too true to his subject, this was a nice change because it's a good story and it's well written.

The book is supposed to be set up around Jim Abbott's no-hitter with the Yankees but the way the chapters are written the structure doesn't work as well as it should.   There are little blurbs about the no-hitter followed by longer chapters that tell Abbott's story.  Because of this, the few pages dedicated to the no-hitter in between read more like an interruption to the storytelling.   Also, most of these sections don't really describe the game but instead present a few lines about Abbott's thoughts during the game and some of the closer calls that happened.

Despite this, the story is still a good one and I would say it's worth giving this book a shot.