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Baseball and the Game of Life: Stories for the Thinking Fan (15 Stories) [Hardcover]

Various (Author), Peter C. Bjarkman (Editor)

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Publication Date: August 18, 1990

15 fine stories by WP Kinsella, Robert Coover, Jay Neugeboren, William Stafford, Henry Roth, David Nemec and others on the human condition near the baseball diamond. Printed letterpress in sepia ink on 80 lb. Mohawk Vellum.

First rate baseball literature bibliography.

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First rate baseball literature bibliography.

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"Noteworthy" -- New York Times

"Sparkling selection of baseball fiction" -- Library Journal

Product Details

Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Birch Brook Pr (August 18, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0913559156
ISBN-13: 978-0913559154
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,767,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With the first crack of 19th-century ash bat against sewn horsehide, baseball flowered as America's unchallenged pastoral national sport, a status it has steadfastly maintained down to the present era. Read the first page

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exploding curve, rookie southpaw, baseball novels, baseball literature, baseball fiction, gobble gobble

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New York, Coach Smith, Robert Eager, The Zodiacs, Wrigley Field, Browning's Lamps, Lumpy Drobot, The Cinderella Kid, American Legion, Coach Sutton, National League, Beanball Monaghan, Frankie's Home Run, Jack Wolf's Try-Out, Mark Harris, American League, Angel Correa, Ted Williams, White Sox, College Boy, Dean Breadfollow, George Santini, Jimmy O'Brien, Little League, Parade Grounds

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This book cites 50 books:

The Great American Novel by Philip Roth on 5 pages
The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn by David Ritz on page 16, page 21, and Back Matter
Home Run by Laurence James on page 143, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Seventh Babe by Jerome Charyn on page 12, page 20, and Back Matter
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel by W. P. Kinsella on page 13, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Extra Innings: WRITING ON BASEBALL (Sport and Society) by Richard Peterson on page 86, and Back Matter
The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture by David McGimpsey in Back Matter
Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) by David Rowe on page 79
Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature by Michael Cocchiarale in Back Matter

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