| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 278 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
A Harvest Original |
| Contents |
A home-run chronology / George Plimpton -- That man from Mudville / Grantland Rice -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Josh / Robert Peterson -- His majesty the king / Paul Gallico -- Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer -- The Babe / Garrison Keillor -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith -- Pafko at the wall / Don DeLillo -- The record almost broke him / Rick Telander -- A matter of record / George Plimpton -- A zen way of baseball / Sadaharu Oh with David Falkner --Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith -- Homeric tales / Roger Angell -- A pretty good day in the life of a research scientist / Daniel Paisner -- How to trot with no place to go / Rick Reilly. |
| Subject |
Home runs (Baseball) -- Anecdotes.
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Baseball stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Plimpton, George.
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| ISBN |
0156011549 |
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