Ring Around the Bases

Ring Around the Bases

Author: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9781570035319

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This collection of fiction by writer, critic and sports editor Ring Lardner celebrates the American pastime of baseball.


The Writers' Game

The Writers' Game

Author: Richard Orodenker

Publisher: Hall Reference Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Surveying the vast body of nonfiction writing devoted to baseball and exploring the recurrent themes and myths that typify it, the book gives special attention to the familiar essay, the in-depth personal profile, and the memoir or autobiography, while never skirting seminal works of baseball lore, whether early sports guide, dime novel, or oral history. The result is a dozen thematically arranged chapters that inspect the works of scores of writers - including Christy Mathewson, Stephen Crane, Donald Hall, Jim Bouton, Roger Angell, and Annie Dillard - and provide a thoroughly entertaining compendium of the history and culture of baseball.