Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt: Baseball Stories - Hardcover

Kinsella, W. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395475929 ISBN 13: 9780395475928

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988

Synopsis

Stories deal with a baseball-loving extraterrestrial, diehard fans, con men, veteran ballplayers, children's teams, and the mystery of a vanished star

About this title

From Library Journal:

$15.95. f Probably no one uses baseball as metaphor better than Kinsella. The stories in this collection range in tone from zaniness to pathos. It's hard to choose a favorite story: maybe the bizarre "Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated," about a mascot from outer space who really looks like a bird. Or the title story, about childhood innocence violated. Or the touching "Valley of the Schmoon," told by a man who has lost everything without having the faintest idea why. Or "K-Mart," about the betrayals and losses in growing up, trying to restore life as it should be and was in boyhood baseball days. Highly recommended.Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395475929
• ISBN 13: 9780395475928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179