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Title:

Baseball's best short stories / edited by Paul D. Staudohar.

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Publisher:

Chicago Review Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 425 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Baseball stories.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Staudohar, Paul D.

Contents:

Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer -- Casey at the bat / Frank Deford -- The thrill of the grass / W. P. Kinsella -- The Rube's Waterloo / Zane Grey -- Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner -- Three new twins join club in spring / Garrison Keillor -- A family game / Brendan DuBois -- Goodwood comes back / Robert Penn Warren -- The Rookie / Eliot Asinof -- The crab / Gerald Beaumont -- Baseball in April / Gary Soto -- You could look it up / James G. Thurber -- Smoke / Michael Chabon -- One throw / W. C. Heinz -- A game of catch / Richard Wilbur -- A pitcher grows tired / Ashley Buck -- Baseball hattie / Damon Runyon -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- The master's touch / Herbert Warren Wind -- What did we do wrong? / Garrison Keillor -- Horseshoes / Ring Lardner -- Fielder's choice / Edward L. McKenna -- Brooklyns lose / William Heuman -- The pitcher and the plutocrat / P. G. Wodehouse -- Gandhi at the bat / Chet Williamson -- The curious case of Sidd Finch / George Plimpton -- Jamesie / J. F. Powers -- Leg / Steven Polansky -- The Crambury Tiger / Arthur "Bug" Baer -- What we all want / Leslie Pietrzyk -- Who's on first? / Lloyd Biggle Jr -- Death of a right fielder / Stuart Dybek -- The umpire was a rookie / Arnold Hano -- The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

ISBN:

1613743769 (pbk.)
9781613743768 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2011045904

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)