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Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 196154
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 404
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 155652319X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0108355
EAN: 9781556523199
ASIN: 155652319X
Publication Date: March 1, 1997
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Amazon.com 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
Product Description
This anthology brings together twenty-eight exceptional short stories about the great game of baseball. Written over several decades by some of America's favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Chet Williamson, many of the stories are about the game itself; others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love.
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Clear evidence that baseball's the favorite sport of writers August 24, 1998
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
What a find! This is without a doubt required reading for anyone who longs for baseball "the way it used to be." Funny and entertaining, sometimes mysterious and dramatic.
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