Green boards and binding with silver lettering on spine. End papers clean. Text pages and end papers are toned. Top of text block has light soiling. Dust jacket is intact and free from nicks and chinks. Light shelf wear with barely perceptible scratches. Not price clipped. Essays by: Mark Alvarez, Bob Broeg, Donald Hall, John B. Holway, Jim Kaplan, Walter Langford, Norman L. Macht, W. G. Nicholson, John W. Rosenburg, William Wallace and others.

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Title: The Ol'Ball Game: A Collection of Baseball Characters & Moments Worth Remembering
Publisher: Stackpole book, Harrisburg, PA
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811710181
ISBN 13: 9780811710183
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Essays discuss Eddie Gaedel, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Cool Papa Bell, Mickey Mantle's longest home run, famous plays, and the invention of the curve ball

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Two new collections of baseball writing for fans not too busy watching the game. In Into the Temple of Baseball Grossinger and Kerrane have lined up Roger Angell, the late Bart Giamatti, Stephen King, and others for an assortment of essays, fiction, art, and even song. The Ol' Ball Game features a roster of baseball historians and newspeople who recall some great players, teams, and games of the major and Negro leagues. These two anthologies compare well with the writing in books such as Jerome Holzman's Fielder's Choice (HBJ, 1979. o.p.), The Red Smith Reader (LJ 7/82), and the collections in Spitball magazine and the annual SABR Baseball Research Journal (Soc. for American Baseball Research) . However, they pale beside Charles Einstein's three classic Fireside Books of Baseball ( LJ 8/56; 1956-. o.p.); gems from those books, including Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" and Ring Lardner's "Alibi Ike," appear in Einstein's Baseball Reader (1987. 4th ed. pap.). Extensive baseball collections will want these two new books but other libraries can skip.
- Morey Berger, formerly with Monmouth Cty . Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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