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Great Baseball Stories: Ruminations and Nostalgic Reminiscences on Our National Pastime

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Great Baseball Stories: Ruminations and Nostalgic Reminiscences on Our National Pastime
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Andrew Blauner
By (author) Lee Gutkind
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreBaseball
ISBN/Barcode 9781616086039
ClassificationsDewey:796.357
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date 5 July 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

Here is a wonderful collection of twenty revealing essays on the national pastime. Featuring contributions from Roger Angell, John Thorn, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Stefan Fatsis, and others (plus a foreword by the legendary Yogi Berra), the stories are united by the authors' fervent love of the game.

Author Biography

Lee Gutkind is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including, Almost Human: Making Robots Think, described by the Daily Show's Jon Stewart as "Wild-crazy-fascinating" and the award-winning Many Sleepless Nights, a chronicle of the breakthroughs in the organ transplant world. Gutkind is founder and editor of the popular journal Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary journal to publish nonfiction exclusively. In 2009, he became Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, AZ.

Reviews

Exceptional a lively, rewarding read. --Robert W. Creamer, Sports Illustrated writer/editor and author of BABE: The Legend Comes to Life" This collection of 20 essays, most of them never before published, is not a New York book, per se, but it brims with lyrical reminiscences about the love affair between the city and the sport What ties these charming essays together? 'The collection, ' Mr. Gutkind writes, represents 'the connective tissue' of the game, from the mitts to the stadiums that collectively constitute 'our common nostalgia for the way it was, and our fervent hope that the sport will endure the way we think it always should be.' " Exceptional--a lively, rewarding read. --Robert W. Creamer, Sports Illustrated writer/editor and author of BABE: The Legend Comes to Life