Baseball Summer

By Tanner Parsons

Should my son ever ask me how it is that I never became a major league baseball player, I will hand him this book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595231756
• ISBN13: 9780595231751
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

More Than Summer, More Than Baseball

Baseball Summer is, of course, about baseball and about summer. It depicts varying grades of Orioles, Angels, Whitesox, and Cats. It follows the game and the season from Baltimore to Minnesota to Greece. It recounts anecdotes relating to the likes of Brooks Robinson and Mickey Mantle. It even details in varying degrees of minutia the career of Nolan Ryan (the author's second cousin - though the author insists third - but what's a base or two between cousins): the reader will marvel perhaps at knowing which day in the month of September in 20+ years in the majors that Nolan Ryan never pitched a strikeout. But Baseball Summer is also about November and softball and Burbank and all the aspirations for winning; it's about losing, too. Sometimes the action in the narrative reads as though the author is broadcasting play-by-play on radio, replete with suspense and thrill. Sometimes there's T.V., too. His style makes for a very easy and enjoyable read. It wends a story that is both personal and universal, humorous and touching, friendly and strangely pedagogical, in the literal sense. Throughout, however, there's the game and what it means to want to be in the game at any time of year in any place in the world in any walk of life. There's the child and there's the adult, the pro and the amateur - each one wanting perhaps the same thing - to play.