From Publishers Weekly
Baseball, wrote Walt Whitman, is "our game, the American game." Countless other writers and artists have agreed with him. In Baseball: The National Pastime in Art and Literature, fiction, nonfiction and poetry run alongside visual art - paintings, drawings, posters, folk art, magazine covers - all in exuberant celebration of the game. Editor David Colbert (Eyewitness to America, Eyewitness to the American West) has compiled writing and commentary from such diverse sources as Sherwood Anderson, Yogi Berra, Donald Hall, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Grantland Rice, Stephen King, Annie Dillard, Pete Hamill, Roger Angell, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Abbott & Costello and Ogden Nash. Artists are equally varied, ranging from Andy Warhol to Currier & Ives, as well as lesser-known illustrators for popular magazines like Boy's Life and Vanity Fair. This is an attractive and substantive gift book for baseball fans of all ages.
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