Bunts
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Overview
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood ("Dred Scott in Spikes"), Will on Ted Williams ("When Ted Williams retired in 1960, a sportswriter said that Boston knew how Britain felt when it lost India. Indeed, Britain felt diminished, but also a bit relieved"), and Will on his own baseball career ("I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black"). Here are subjects ranging from the author's 1977 purchase of a single share of stock in the Chicago Cubs to the memorable 1998 season, which is discussed in an all-new essay.For fans of Men at Work and Will's other baseball writings, this book is as pleasurable as a well-executed bunt.
Synopsis
Fans of baseball will covet these eloquent reflections on the sport from the author of the bestseller Men at Work. Each exquisitely honed piece in this extensive collection—from reviews of books about Pete Rose and Ted Williams to his reflections on the "big bang" baseball style of the 1950s—reveals Will's singular perspective on the game of baseball.
USA Today Baseball Weekly
Like a Greg Maddux curve, Will's prose dances and moves in all directions while seldom missing the corners of the strike zone.