A Day In The Bleachers (A Da Capo paperback) [Paperback]

Arnold Hano (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Da Capo paperback | Publication Date: March 21, 1982

From the subway ride to the ballpark, through batting practice and warm-ups, to the game-winning home run, A Day in the Bleachers describes inning by inning the strategies, heroics, and ineluctable rhythms of the opening game of the 1954 World Series. Here are the spectacular exploits of the Indians and Giants, and of a young player named Willie Mays, who made the most-talked-about catch in baseball history.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Shelf Unbound, September 2010
“The one title I would recommend to anyone, male or female, love the game or hate it…[It] captures one day, one game, with such loving detail you can almost smell the stale beer on the concrete floor…If I wanted to recruit nonbelievers, I’d hand out A Day in the Bleachers the way Christians hand out New Testaments.”

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Arnold Hano is the author of several books on sports and sports figures. Though he remains a New York Giants fan, he now lives in California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 21, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306801663
• ISBN-13: 978-0306801662
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,809,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a classic, June 21, 2004

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J. J. O'DONNELL "jod4680" (Squillace (Italy)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Day In The Bleachers (Paperback)

This is the only baseball book that I have read in every decade of my life, from the first. I'm 54, and I first read this book in 1959, with awe and rapture. It captures the flavor and the intensity of the experience of baseball before television as no other pages do and, as it happens, it tells the story of one of the transcendent moments of real baseball history. When Willie Mays was given an honorary degree at Yale this year, they specifically cited "the catch" fifty years ago as his most distinct single moment of on-field performance, for all that he was never less than a captivating performer. Hano's book is one to read and reread, with ever-renewed pleasure.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rejoice! "A Day in the Bleachers" is back in print!, August 21, 2004

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PaddyOBerk - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Day In The Bleachers (Paperback)

This book captures what it is to be a fan better than anything else I've ever read. I often read this book in the Spring, to cleanse my mental palate of a long dreary Winter of football, basketball, the off-season noise of player contracts, and all else that is life without baseball actually on the field and in the stands. This book always does the trick. I once lost my copy (probably loaned it to someone who never returned it) and had to live without it for years until I found another used copy. Those were hard times. Now it's readily available and I can give it as a gift. Glory, glory, glory!

I know, this doesn't actually tell you about the book, but I'm too thrilled to bother with all that now. Just get it. I've never lent my copy to anyone without them coming back singing its praises...except for that mystery s.o.b who apparently liked it too much to return it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like being at the game, September 29, 2004

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D. C. John (West Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Day In The Bleachers (Paperback)

Did you ever wonder what it was like going to a game at the Polo Grounds? This is an inning by inning description of Game 1 of the 1954 series that covers getting to the park, who was sitting nearby, and of course the game itself. It is told from the view of a fan who knows and loves the game, but avoids windy philosophy and theory. It is especially grand to read in the depths of winter when baseball is either a memory or anticipated. I can't recommend it too highly.