Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Sloppy and Disappointing

I wanted to like this book and expected to like this book, but there are just too many flaws. When the focus is on Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson and the turmoil of the 78 Yankees, it's insightful and interesting. But relatively little of the book actually is about the 1978 season. Far too much space is given to sloppy, meandering passages about baseball history and odd, mean-spirited, and entirely unnecessary swipes at other sportswriters. This seems to have slapped together with little thought, research, or editing.