Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic Hardcover – March 24, 2009

I came at this book from an entirely different perspective than it's author. Unlike most baseball fans, I discovered my true love for baseball late in life (early forties, to be exact.) I picked up this book for two reasons--it seemed to be well-written, and was written from a true fan's perspective. I must say that Alyssa Milano exceeded my expectations. This was a loving depiction of a fan's love for baseball and her home team. As a recent baseball convert, and die-hard fan of the Texas Rangers, I can share Ms. Milano's passions and percetions about her home team. What really struck me about the book, however, was how Ms. Milano managed to share details of her personal life in such a way as to highlight her primary point--that baseball, to a large degree, is about life. The game has taught me much in a very short time. I was moved to read that another individual has found similar meaning in the game throughout her life.In short, this was an excellent read on two levels--for the baseball fan, and for those who will enjoy a well-written love note to one woman's passion for her avocation.

Actress Alyssa Milano is in love--with baseball. In fact, I'd call her an absolute fanatic. She knows all the stats, all the history, and goes to even more games than I do, which is a lot. (She's a Dodgers fan, though.)With a breezy style, she talks about her lifelong love affair with baseball and what the game means to her. It's a fun book about a subject I love.Even so, I'm not sure what but there was something off-putting about this book. Maybe my sense that, more than anything else, she was showing off? Maybe my sense that there was not much organization and she was, instead, wandering through her topic? That doesn't make it bad, just, as I say, off-putting.I wanted to absolutely love it but instead, I only liked it.btw, I laughed at the one typo I spotted where she refers to the Word Series. I pictured writers squaring off against each other, each fall.

Enjoyed reading her take on the game of baseball. Kept my attention! Liked how she compared it to life.

Let's start off by saying that I am a Braves fan, but moreover a lover of all sports particularly baseball, so when people misquote stuff, especially where my Braves are concerned I tend to get a little ticked off.I picked up the book because I wanted to see a fellow female expand upon her love of this awesome game. I mean who doesn't believe that October is the greatest month of all?But, to put it mildly, I haven't been able to get pass page 82 in this otherwise lovely book on the history of the sport that I have come to love. It probably will mean nothing to those who are simply Alyssa Milano fans or to those who could care less who lost to the Yanks in the'96 World Series, but to me, and other Braves fans who endured that bleak series, to say that San Diego was there is a slap in the face.I don't know how many other "facts" in this book are in fact not really facts, but Baseball is all about its history, so get it right the first time or leave it alone...

Her heart beats in time with the true heart of Baseball On every page she celebrates what Baseball is what it was and what it can be again. We see the times it has sustained her and other times when it lifted her still further. We feel the bond it helps create with her Father and perhaps in a bigger sense the bond created with the true natue of the human spirit. Also in her frank no nonsense honesty she tells it like it is regarding what is wrong with Americas game. A good read in so many ways.Gary

I WAS VERY HESITANT IN WANTING TO READ THIS. I FELT THAT A FEMALE ACTRESS WOULD HAVE A BUNCH OF AIR HEADED AND STUPID COMMENTS TO FILL THIS BOOK. WHAT I FOUND WAS A WOMAN WHO KNOWS HER STUFF. I AM SURE SHE GOT HELP WITH SOME OF THESE FACTS AND STORIES BUT I AM IMPRESSED WITH HER KNOWLEDGE AND PASSION FOR THIS GREAT SPORT. I LIKE THE ENTHUSIASM AND DIEHARD ATTITUDE ABOUT HER TEAM THE DODGERS. I ALSO LIKE HER IDEAS ABOUT MAKING A GAME A FAMILY EVENT. ALYSSA ALSO MENTIONS HER CAREER BRIEFLY AND ALSO REVEALS WHICH PLAYERS SHE HAS DATED. I ALSO APPRECIATE HER MENTIONING HER FAMILY AND THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP THEY HAVE. I RECOMMEND THIS FOR ALL WHO LIKE BASBALL AND THOSE WHO ARE FANS OF ALYSSA. A VERY NICE READ.

Like Alyssa Milano, I am female and a passionate baseball fan. Unlike Alyssa Milano, I will never write a book about baseball. Why not? Because I would sound like a dork.Women who love baseball have to be very careful. Baseball is, when you get right down to it, men's turf. (So to speak.) I respectfully submit that Alyssa is fooling herself if she thinks that she is any kind of baseball insider. The pictures in this book are pretty compelling evidence that the players and the legends and the managers tolerate her presence because she's, you know, pretty darned hot.I don't doubt for a minute that she has a strong and abiding love for the game and that baseball is an inextricable part of her warmest family memories. I also appreciate and respect her thinking in conceiving the Touch line of clothing - inspired. What I do not appreciate is this 36-year old woman using vivid I-remember-it-well type descriptions of Thurman Munson's and Roberto Clemente's deaths in plane crashes before she was born - or audaciously suggesting how she would change the game of baseball.I would have liked to know more about her struggles in the business, or her work as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. I would like to know more about her marriage that failed or her experiences dating pro ballplayers. Instead she talks about how losing herself in the beauty of the 4-3-2 double play saved her life, and I have to say it just doesn't work for me. She has used virtually every trite phrase ever invented. She has an annoying habit of referring to players, even pretty obscure one, by their nicknames (Shane Victorino the Flyin' Hawaiian? Really?)I don't think Alyssa knows or thought very much about her target audience, and unfortunately the result may be the response "Why should we care what you think?" I really wish she had set out to write a more general autobiography with a big ol' chapter about baseball in it.