For the Love of Baseball (eBook)

A Celebration of the Game That Connects Us All

Andrew Blauner, Lee Gutkind (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
256 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0274-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Stefan Fatsis sends his stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers why it is that pitchers are so much livelier and more garrulous than hitters. George Plimpton reflects on the slow demotion of aging or slumping players from pitcher, to first base, to the outfield.United by the authors fervent love of the game, each chapter in this book reminds us of the unique role baseball plays in our national history and collective imagination. In addition to the writers mentioned above, the lineup includes: Kevin Baker Jeff Greenfield Katherine A. Powers Michael Shapiro John Thorn Sean Wilentz And more!Published previously as Anatomy of Baseball and Great Baseball Stories, this wide-ranging collection now includes pieces by A. Bartlett Giamatti, Gay Talese, Matthew McGough, and George Vecsey.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Lee Gutkind is the author or editor of more than thirty books and founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary magazine to publish narrative nonfiction exclusively. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.Andrew Blauner is the founder of Blauner Books Literary Agency and a member of PEN, the National Book Critics Circle, and SABR. He is editor of Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry, Central Park: An Anthology, and Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2016
• Vorwort: Yogi Berra
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1939 • all-star lineup • Anthologies • assemble • Assembling • bart giamatti george plimpton • Bases • batter • Bestseller • bogged • books on anthologies books on bestsellers • books on bases • books on batters • books on bruins • books on creamers • books on fieldings • books on gloves • books on hochmen • books on innings • books on lights • books on mcgoughs • books on outfielders • books on parks • books on phoenixes • books on pitchers • books on polo grounds • books on sliders • books on spinks • books on spring trainings • books on taleses • books on umpires • Bruins • creamer • eclectic • Fielding • glove • hochman • inning • lights • Lou Gehrig • luckiest • McGough • outfielder • Parks • Phoenix • pitcher • polo grounds • roger angell • slider • spink • spring training • symmetrically • talese • umpire • umpiring • waived • woundings
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0274-1 / 1510702741
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0274-5 / 9781510702745