free write for the celebrant

the celebrant was a good book but i personally think it receives too much hype.  the novel is often considered one of the best baseball novels of all time.  i think this isnt so because the book only deals with baseball for a short amount of time.  most of the novel is dealing with the personal demons of jackie kapp.  his attempts to move away from the old jewish style of living that his family has, he obsession with christy mathewson, and his disbeleif of anything bad going on in baseball.  also i think that dealing with great baseball players like christy mathewson is great but the novel needed to deal more with him.  it speaks of his legendary no hitter but then more or less he disappears untill he meets kapp while he is dieing.  if kapp was truly obsessed like it shows in the novle shouldnt we deal with his obsession the whole novel?  also the focous on the black sox scandal is kind of vague unless you are an avid baseball person and know about it already.  then late in the novel when kapp meets mathewson, mathewson is a jerk to him and thats it, nothing else happens with him.  finally i think the novel would have benefitted from fictional places instead of real places.