Baseball's Best Short Stories

By: Staudohar, Paul D.

Book Overview

For the first time available in paperback, this superb collection of short stories chronicles more than a century of America's love affair with baseball. A variety of writers from different eras pay tribute to the game that has merged with our national identity. Contributors include Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Thurber, Ring Lardner, and Garrison Keillor. Line drawings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556522479
• ISBN13: 9781556522475
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Clear evidence that baseball's the favorite sport of writers

What a find! This is without a doubt required reading for anyone who longs for baseball "the way it used to be." Funny and entertaining, sometimes mysterious and dramatic.