Title | : | Great Baseball Stories: Ruminations and Nostalgic Reminiscences on Our National Pastime |
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Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
Number of Pages | : | 268 |
Publication | : | First published May 1, 2012 |
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.
Great Baseball Stories: Ruminations and Nostalgic Reminiscences on Our National Pastime Reviews
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Some silly entries but better than expected. Not sure what the writer of the Orioles essay was referring to when noting Eddie Murray’s season long slump in 1983…Steady Eddie hit .306 with 33 hrs and 100+ driven in.
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Like with any collection of writings you have good stories and then you have a few bad stories. In all honesty this book was for the most part good stories and then some great stories! If you are any kind of a baseball fan you to put this in you to read list!