Painting the Corners Again: Off-Center Baseball Fiction

Description

Baseball and the people who live and breathe it will seem closer and more vivid than ever. "Painting the Corners Again" is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and

Bob Weintraub's stories have appeared in several publications, including Spitball, Fenway Fiction, 96 Inc., and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law and lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sandra.

"Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has big-league talent." -Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe "Like lots of good stories set in baseball, the entries in Painting the Corners Again are less about baseball than they are about people and the curveballs they throw each other. Of at least one of the stories, O. Henry would have been proud." -Bill Littlefield, host of NPR and WBUR's Only a Game "Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove league nights." -Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and Two in the Field "Unique and wonderfully twisted." -Ed Asner, actor "Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has big-league talent." -Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe