National Pastime

by John Thorn

Book Overview

Back in 1982, the Society for American Baseball Research was still young, barely a decade past its founding, and had grown to some 1600 members. One of their number, a "defrocked English Lit guy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517662027
• ISBN13: 9780517662021
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

long summer days

It's always difficult to find a book that isn't cloaked in modern day cinicism, and that's why THE NATIONAL PASTIME is one of the most refreshing books I've read in years. If you lazily daydream about your little league days, big league chew, and your first triple, then this will stoke the fires of nostalgia for you as it did for me. What i liked most is that I got the sense that the author is probably not that different from you or I--just a life-long fan who wants to share his passion for the greatest game ever played. The only difference may be the remarkable skill and wit with which he chronicles our nation's pastime. He'll make you want to get a stick ball game gong in the back yard.