Painting the Corners (eBook)

Off-Center Baseball Fiction

Bob Weintraub (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
224 Seiten
Yucca Publishing (Verlag)
9781631580321 (ISBN)

Infos

"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

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"e;Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove league nights."e; Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and Two in the FieldBob Weintraub's marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into our lives and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. In "e;Knuckleball,"e;; a manager is beside himself when he can't let his star knuckleball pitcher start the seventh game of the World Series because the only catcher he's ever had in the big leagues suddenly goes down with an injury. The team from Alcatraz, in "e;The Way They Play Is Criminal,"e; has a bag full of dirty tricks waiting to spring on its San Quentin rivals, and it uses them all. A father on a college tour with his daughter happens upon the very same autographed baseball he saw a friend catch in Fenway Park's bleachers thirty years earlier, and learns, in "e;The Autograph,"e; how a twist of fate has brought the friend together with the player who hit it. In these and other stories, Weintraub infuses baseball with humanity, originality, humor, and compassion, and raises the game to a new level of understanding and love.

Autor

Bob Weintraub’s stories have appeared in several publications including 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Schlagworte: 83-year-old • All-Stars • America • asner • bambino • baseball all-stars • baseball batters • baseball books • baseball champions • baseball coach • baseball facts • baseball hitters • baseball humor • baseball love • baseball MVP • baseball records • baseball stats • baseball stories • batting • Bench • best baseball players • best batters • best rookies • big-league • bleachers • books on bambino • books on baseball records • books on benches • books on big-leagues • books on bleachers • books on bunts • books on clubhouses • books on commissioners • books on detroit • books on dugouts • books on fielders • books on hitters • books on infields • books on innings books on battings • books on leagues • books on mets • books on pitchers • books on pitches • books on plates • books on rosters • books on ruiz • books on shortstops • books on stadia • bunting • bunts • clubhouse • commissioner • darryl brock • Detroit • dugout • fastball • fielder • funny baseball • funny baseball stories • funny sports books • gift for baseball coach • gift for baseball fan • gift for baseball lover • grand slams • greatest baseball players • Hank • Harris • hilarious baseball stories • hitter • infield • infielders • innings • Joe • leagues • major-league • METs • michael coffey • montville • Ninth • nonfans • outfielders • pinch-hit • pinch hitters • Pitch • pitchers • Plate • robert weintraub • Rookies • roster • Ruiz • Ruth • scored • Shortstop • slugging • slugging record • Stadium • strikeouts • switch-hitting • touching stories about baseball • world series
• ISBN-13: 9781631580321 / 9781631580321