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Overview
A collection of great writers writing about great players. Including Thomas Boswell on Cal Ripken, William Brashler on Josh Gibson, Leigh Montville on Nolan Ryan, Roger Angell on Jackie Robinson and Pat Jordan on Steve Dalkowski (the fastest pitcher of all time).Like the reputed recipe for ballpark hot dogs, The Sandlot Game: An Anthology of Baseball Writings contains parts of many animals. Edited by Dick Wimme, the author of Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons, it includes excerpts from Willie Mays's autobiography; Roger Towne's and Phil Dusenberry's screen adaptation of Bernard Malamud's The Natural; and pieces by Roger Angell, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, David Halberstam, Don DeLillo and Thomas Boswell. The anthology covers the spectrum from the mythic to the mundane-including Steve Rushkin's analysis of food at various stadia-Atlanta-Fulton gets a low (1/2 hot dog) rating 'cause it's "Muggy and buggy and smells like a urinal."
Book Details
Published
August 1, 1997
Publisher
Masters Press,U.S.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781570281204