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Format:
Book
Title:
Baseball : a literary anthology
ISBN:
9781931082099
Distribution:
[New York] : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam Inc.
Publication:
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam Inc., [2002]
Physical Description:
xi, 721 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer -- The umpire is a most unhappy man / W. Hough, F. Adams -- Take me out to the ball game / J. Norworth -- Baseball's sad lexicon / F.P. Adams -- Old-fashioned pitcher / G.E. Phair -- Baseball as the bleachers like it / C.E. Van Loan -- From The varmint / O. Johnson -- Baiting the umpire / G. Nathan -- From America's national game / A.G. Spalding -- Hail! Roger Merkle, favorite of Toledo ; Rajah's pride falls before 'G. Hooks-em' / Damon Runyon -- From The glory of their times : Sam Crawford / L. Ritter -- From You know me Al ; Where do you get that noise? / Ring Lardner -- Hits & runs ; From Always the young strangers / Carl Sandburg -- Ruth comes into his own with 2 homers / H. Broun -- From No cheering in the press box : Richard Vidmer / J. Holtzman -- The crowd at the ball-game ; From White mule : Fourth of July doubleheader / William Carlos Williams -- From Baseball when the grass was real : James "Cool Papa" Bell / D. Honig -- From Along this way / James Weldon Johnson -- From Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe -- Inside the inside / Paul Gallico.

Pitchers and catchers / M. Berg -- You could look it up / James Thurber -- Polo Grounds / R. Humphries -- It was a great day in Jersey / W. Smith -- Jamesie / J.F. Powers -- Shine ball / J.A. Maxwell -- From Chicago : city on the make / Nelson Algren -- Nice work / J. Cannon -- From Tallulah / Tallulah Bankhead -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Dodgers defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine fans 14 ; The terrible-tempered Mr. Grove / R. Smith -- From God's country and mine / Jacques Barzun -- Perfect day--a day of prowess / Robert Frost -- My grandmother goes to Comiskey Park / J.T. Farrell -- From Damn Yankees -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz -- From The long season / J. Brosnan -- Pitcher ; The base stealer / R. Francis -- Hub fans bid kid Adieu / John Updike -- Rules for staying young / Satchel Paige -- A can of beer, a slice of cake--and thou, Eddie Gaedel / B. Veeck -- Back at the Polo Grounds / M. Kempton -- From Can't anybody here play this game? / J. Breslin -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- From North toward home / Willie Morris -- From Portnoy's complaint / Philip Roth.

From Ball four / J. Bouton -- Van Lingle Mungo / D. Frishberg -- Analysis of baseball / M. Swenson -- From The boys of summer / R. Kahn -- From The wrong season / J. Oppenheimer -- From The summer game ; From Five seasons ; From Late innings ; From Season ticket / R. Angell -- From The great American baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book / B.C. Boyd, F.C. Harris -- Final twist of the drama / George Plimpton -- From A false spring / P. Jordan -- Carlton Fisk is my ideal / B. Mayer -- The green fields of the mind / A.B. Giamatti -- A day of light and shadows / J. Schwartz --From It looked like for ever / M. Harris -- From The celebrant / E.R. Greenberg -- From The autobiography of Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka -- From Stengel : his life and times / R. Creamer -- The Sporting news / R. Blount, Jr. -- The September song of Mr. October / D. Remick -- From An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The streak of streaks / S.J. Gould -- Head down / Stephen King -- Coming to the plate, one family's ethos / M. O'Neill -- A minors affair / R. Ford -- Glory / Y. Komunyakaa -- From Underworld / D. DeLillo -- Rain delay : Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 / M. Espada -- From Pure baseball / K. Hernandez -- Yankee ends real corker of a mystery / B. Olney.
Summary:
Includes stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts about all aspects of baseball from its pastoral nineteenth-century beginnings to now.
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