Baseball When The Grass Was Real

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272675
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball when the Grass was Real written by Donald Honig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honig interviewed former big-league players across the country to compile this nostalgic book packed with statistics, action, revelations, and an extraordinary oral history of the halcyon days of baseball between the world wars. Includes comments by Ted Williams, Bucky Waters, Lou Gehrig, and others. Photos.

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780425031384
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball when the Grass was Real written by Donald Honig and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher : Bookthrift Company
ISBN 13 : 9780698106604
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball when the Grass was Real written by Donald Honig and published by Bookthrift Company. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In interviews with the author, eighteen former big-league players, including Wes Ferrell, Bucky Walters, Ted Lyons, Clyde Sukeforth, and Rip Sewell, recall their careers and the game as it was in the twenties, thirties, and forties

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272682
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Between the Lines written by Donald Honig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting story of baseball during and after WWII--when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting became commonplace, when the restrictions were relaxed on Negro players--and when the sport began to become big business. Features Jackie Robinson, DiMaggio, and others. Photos.

Author : Dom DiMaggio
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821734094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Grass, Real Heroes written by Dom DiMaggio and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1941 was baseball's most memorable season. Played out against the backdrop of the growing storm clouds of World War II, the season was remarkable both for its players and events--and for its significance as the end of an era in the history of the sport.

Author : Dan Epstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250007240
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Hair and Plastic Grass written by Dan Epstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749398200
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop written by Robert Coover and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795351011
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thrill of the Grass written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Shoeless Joe—the basis for the film Field of Dreams—come baseball stories that capture the magic and wonder of the game. No one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W. P. Kinsella. Lovers of the game and lovers of fine writing will thrill at the range and depth of the eleven stories that make up this collection. From the magical conspiracy of the title story, to the celestial prediction in “The Last Pennant Before Armageddon,” to the desolation of “The Baseball Spur,” Kinsella explores the world of baseball and makes it, miraculously, a microcosm of the human condition. Praise for W. P. Kinsella’s The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories “[Kinsella] defines a world in which magic and reality combine to make us laugh and think about the perceptions we take for granted.” —The New York Times “His short stories about baseball are wistful things of beauty which serve to remind us how the game should feel—the innate glory of a diamond etched in the minds of Americans.” —Calgary Sun “[Kinsella] uses baseball . . . As a familiar starting place for exploring, with pinpoint control, the human psyche.” —Booklist “Stories that read like lightning and tantalize the reader with fascinating scenarios.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074322275X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball America written by Donald Honig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure."

Author : Bill Meissner
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268086702
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits in the Grass written by Bill Meissner and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bill Meissner’s collection of short stories Hitting into the Wind was published in 1994, it was called “a quiet masterpiece of baseball writing” by the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Bill Meissner captures baseball with all its crystalline beauty—the remarkable reverberation of time and space and character.” And The New York Times Book Review said, “Just about every tale here recalls those precious years when a chance to play in the majors was all a boy could ask from life.” Now, in his first novel, Bill Meissner again uses baseball as a window to his characters. In Spirits in the Grass, we meet Luke Tanner, a thirty-something ball player helping to build a new baseball field in his beloved hometown of Clearwater, Wisconsin. Luke looks forward to trying out for the local amateur team as soon as possible. His chance discovery of a small bone fragment on the field sets in motion a series of events and discoveries that will involve his neighbors, local politicians, and the nearby Native American reservation. Luke’s life, most of all, will be transformed. His growing obsession with the ball field and what’s beneath it threatens his still fragile relationship with his partner, Louise, and challenges Luke’s assumptions about everyone, especially himself. Spirits in the Grass rings true with small-town Midwestern values. The characters, including Luke’s independent partner Louise, grapple with their passion and their identities. In this beautiful and haunting novel, baseball serves as a metaphor for life itself, with its losses and defeats, its glories and triumphs.