The book is full of tension and cliff-hangers, and all that suspense makes for a welcome foil to McCullough’s subject ... Like most sports biographies, The Last of His Kind trends toward the hagiographical. McCullough seems to know that, though, and he cleverly uses that critical cliché to his advantage by fusing his telling of the hero’s journey with Kershaw’s adopted faith ... For some, there will be a fluent predictability in all this pressure ... Still, for the concentric circles of baseball fans and Dodger diehards who will make up the majority of McCullough’s readers, annotated play-by-plays like this are catnip.
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