Dave kopay autobiography books

Kopay's book, which made a significant impact at the time of its publication, has not aged particularly well. The narrative lacks the bite of Meggyesy's Out of Their League and the color of Bouton's Ball Four, the attempts at advocacy are somewhat ham-handed (at one point, he and his collaborator Perry Deane Young republish letters from Kopay's supporters), and the last section of the book--some sort of road trip to redemption--is an absolute mess. The inconsistent voice, with chapters "told by" either Kopay or co-author Young, is a tremendous distraction. Even stranger is the fact that Kopay's "extraordinary self-revelation" (to quote from the cover) leads not to some sort of semi-monogamous relationship--indeed the co-author, who practices casual sex because it's the modern thing to do--but a series of soulless hook-ups, including various threesomes (Kopay refuses to rule out eventually marrying a woman and fathering children, in spite of the fact that his first marriage had failed because of his sexual orientation). In short, there are about fifty pages of great material here, which is a shame because this book could have been so much better.

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