Home Run
by Plimpton, George (editor)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0156011549
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011549
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Synopsis
An all-star collection of the best fiction and nonfiction writing about baseball's most exciting moment The game of baseball is full of moments of greatness. But no moment during a game elicits the roar of the crowd as does the hitting of a home run. And, as witnessed during the past few seasons, home-run fever has swept the fans and the players. Now George Plimpton, famed sports amateur and chronicler of the game of baseball-among many other sports-collects the best writing about the moment a home run is hit. From a memoir of Ted Williams's 1946 All-Star game homer to a fictional visit Babe Ruth made to Lake Wobegon, from Mark McGwire's 69th and 70th home runs to Hank Aaron's pursuit of the Babe's record to Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," we see the effects on the athletes and the fans of that ineffable moment when wood hits leather and the ball sails out over the stands. This delightful and absorbing collection is the most complete, most authoritative, and most compelling assemblage of home-run writing ever put together. Includes glorious prose by John Updike, Don DeLillo, Roger Angell, Paul Gallico, Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Robert Creamer, Garrison Keillor, Donald Hall, Rick Reilly, and Rick Telander, among others.
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- Bookseller
- J. E. MILES, A BOOKSELLER (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61104
- Title
- Home Run
- Author
- Plimpton, George (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0156011549
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011549
- Publisher
- Harcourt Trade Publishers
- Place of Publication
- San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BASEBALL, STORIES, ANECDOTES, FICTION, SPORTS, RECREATION, ESSAYS, WRITINGS
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