Baseball's Best Short Stories - Hardcover

Staudohar, Paul D., Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556522479 ISBN 13: 9781556522475

Publisher: Chicago Review Pr, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of twenty-eight baseball stories includes works by such authors as Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, Garrison Keillor, Coraghessan Boyle, and Chet Williamson

About this title

Review:

Baseball's Best Short Stories is, quite simply, a hit machine, grinding out--one after the other, 28 selections in all--just what its title promises. Leading off with Ernest Thayer's classic poem, "Casey at the Bat," it segues directly into Frank Deford's rumination of what happened to Casey when the poetry stopped, then rounds up the usual subjects: Zane Grey's "The Rube's Waterloo," Ring Lardner's "Alibi Ike" and "My Roomy," James Thurber's "You Could Look It Up," P.G. Wodehouse's "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat," Damon Runyon's "Baseball Hattie," T. Coraghessan Boyle's "The Hector Quesadilla Story," and, behind them, a bullpen of considerable depth and breadth. Staudohar steps up with a paragraph of context and biographical data for each piece, but his overall introduction is merely short and serviceable; real fans of baseball's ample literature will likely wish it went deeper in exploring the long and rich tradition that his collection engagingly sends to the plate. --Jeff Silverman

About the Author:

Paul D Staudohar has edited all of the books in the Sports Best Short Stories series. He is a professor of business administration at California State University at Hayward. He lives in Lafayette, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1556522479
• ISBN 13: 9781556522475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 387