I'm Keith Hernandez: A Memoir Hardcover – May 15, 2018

Great book about Keith Hernandez! Great baseball player !

As a Cardinal fan, I love this book. No wonder New Yorkers are feeling shortchanged. The bulk of the book is about Keith's time in the Cardinal organization. He intersperses Mets broadcasting insights but the heart of the book is Keith and his Cardinal years, and he doesn't even get to the last one's, filled with controversy.. I assume the next book will start there and as soon as he reaches the Met years it will be me that loses some interest.He writes honestly and it is engaging. Different people will have varying reactions to his father.Actual technical baseball is a little less interesting, although he loathes all the new cyber metrics.I lapped this book up and any Cardinal fan with some age on them will too.

Very interesting to learn about Keith Hernandez’s upbringing and early professional days in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. As a Mets fan, I’ve read many accounts of his career in New York, so this was very different. Also, the accounts of Keith Hernandez‘s motivations, influences, and thought processes, as well as his approach to baseball and the craft of hitting were extremely insightful.

Great read, loved hearing about Keith’s journey through childhood and a baseball life! He will always be a Met to me!

I bought this for my teenage son who is a huge Mets and Hernandez fan. So far he is enjoying it very much. He says the writing style is similar to the way Hernandez does the sportscasting for the Mets. It's hard to get teens interested in reading anything other than memes and other internet time wasters so I consider this a parenting win!

Enjoyable read, yet I feel slighted; Keith Hernandez played MLB from 1974 to 1990, but the book only covers the years 1972 to 1979. 1972 was his first year in the minors. He defends his decision to write only these 7 years because that is what shaped him as a ballplayer. In addition, he feels that writing about the latter years would only add to the excessive written word of the latter years, such as 1983 when he was traded to the New York Mets and 1986 when he won a World Series. In those years he was the face of the New York Mets. I feel these latter years defined him as much as those early years. Besides that, the book was engaging and wasn't written so much as conversational. It was easy to read. The book did a decent job of showing the reader how Keith Hernandez, the ballplayer was defined , yet I feel it was incomplete.

Like all memoirs, having knowledge of who the author is and what he has done in life helps alot. Lots of information on hitting and ball players from 40 years ago. Also, it seems like Keith's dad was the original "tiger" parent. But like all parents who recognize their child's talent, his father devoted much of his time and energy to develop Keith's innate talent for baseball. I wish there was more inside or behind the scenes vignettes of teammates he played with and against. Also, while Keith described his drug use in his minor league days, there is only fleeting reference to his use of cocaine. The stories that he was traded to the Mets after the 1983 season because of his cocaine use are out there and I would have liked to have read Keith's perspective on that time. He has mentioned numerous times as a broadcaster that he was devastated by the trade but I wish he continued a bit further and informed the reader if he thought the drug use affected his on field performance. It did affect Dwight Gooden so I felt Keith could have gone a bit further. I have been a fan of the Mets since 1962 and know most of the stories but I felt the book stopped abruptly.

I’m a huge Keith Hernandez fan and a huge Mets fan. Could not wait to get this book and boy did it not disappoint! Keith writes very honestly, doesn’t pull any punches, and takes you through the ups and downs of his childhood and the early part of his career. I imagine there will be a follow-up to this book that will take him through the later stages of his career, and I will be the first in line to order it. I actually had the chance to take my book to a signing, and Keith was wonderful! Took a picture with my wife as well, and actually am a little bit jealous to be honest. :)

Happy with my purchase.