| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 261 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Harvest original." |
| Contents |
Men in Straw Hats -- Green Fields, Sunshine -- We Knew When They Cheered the Pirates -- A Gift from Aunt Mary -- The Country Boy -- So Far Away, St. Louis Was Another Country -- Ty Cobb Went with My Aunt -- Truck Hannah's Little Girl -- I Hit Babe Ruth with a Peanut -- I Fell for Them Right Away -- The Day Mother Booed -- In Chicago, It Was the Cubs -- Opening Day for Christmas -- I Was Rooting for the Browns -- There Were Ballplayers Everywhere -- Next Thing You Know, We Were Playing Baseball -- The Night Mel Ott Died -- A Childhood Dream -- My Love Was the Birmingham Barons -- A Sweet Spot in Time -- In the Shadow of the Wall -- Heaven at 3:36 -- Seals and Oaks and All Those Good Things. |
| Summary |
Here are the recollections of forty-five baseball fansordinary people who have had baseball as a part of their lives for as long as they can remember. From age seventeen to ninety-four, from Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Raytown, Missouri, to Seattle, Washington, their stories create as unique a portrait of baseball as you can imagine. Here is a blind technician who thrilled to the sound of Bob Murphy calling the Mets; a Cuban-American who reveled in his Mickey Mantle. |
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scrap-books; a nun who went to the Texas Rangers' fantasy camp; a Japanese-American who played ball in detainment camps during World War II. Completely entertaining, poignant, surprising, evocative, opinionated, these reminiscences are the truest form of baseball history - of America's history -that we could ever hope to read. |
| Subject |
Baseball -- United States -- History.
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Oral history.
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Baseball fans -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0156002183 |
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9780156002189 |
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