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05201aam a22006618i 4500 001 500E2CA2D82E11ED9D4759DE5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230411010049 008 220712s2023 nyuaf 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022030173 020 $a 0385548400 020 $a 9780385548403 035 $a (OCoLC)1335755341 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d TOH $d GK8 $d IFK $d OJ4 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nc 050 00 $a GV742.42 $b .M446 2023 082 00 $a 070.4/49796 $2 23/eng/20221013 100 1 $a McGee, Ryan, $e author. 245 10 $a Welcome to the circus of baseball : $b a story of the perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time / $c by Ryan McGee. 250 $a First Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever wanted to work. But he did receive one job offer: to work for $100 a week for the Asheville Tourists, a proud minor league baseball team in the heart of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. McCormick Field, home to the Tourists, had once been graced by Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson. What could go wrong? Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is McGee's hilarious, charming memoir of his first summer working in the sporting world. He has since risen the ESPN ranks to national TV, radio and internet host, but his time in Asheville still looms large. Among the many jewels of his experience...McGee recounts one of the most entertaining on-field brawls you'll ever know (between the fourteen league mascots who had assembled for the all-star game - an eight-foot tall foam-costumed crustacean, a pudgy red fox, a giant skunk . . . and they were really fighting), as well as the day he oversaw the game-day entertainer known as "Captain Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death" - let's just say, things went wrong. Most important, McGee details a magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes, of working with players on their way up to the Majors or down to extinction, and of coming to understand how the pulse of a community can beat happily through a minor league ballclub. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a baseball classic in the making"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue: Let's start with a bang -- Pregame: Welcome to the circus of baseball -- First Inning: "Take off your shoes, for you are standing on hallowed ground" -- Second Inning: Let's give it up for your Asheville Tourists -- Third Inning: Play ball! -- Fourth Inning: "Heywood Jablowmee, please report to the press box" -- Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider -- Sixth Inning: At-bat food services -- Seventh Inning: Michael, O.J. and sorry, Mr. Wolfe, but you can come home again -- Seventh Inning Stretch: The battle of Hickory -- Eighth Inning: Into each life some rain must fall ... and it's usually on game days -- Ninth Inning: As good as it gets ... or is it? -- Postgame: "The Big Club is sending you up." -- Postscript: Where are they now? 600 10 $a McGee, Ryan. 650 0 $a Sportswriters $z United States $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Summer employment $z Asheville. $z Asheville. 610 20 $a Asheville Tourists (Baseball team) $x History. 610 20 $a McCormick Field (Asheville, N.C.) $x History. 650 0 $a Minor league baseball $z Asheville $z Asheville $x History. 650 7 $a SPORTS & RECREATION / General. $2 bisacsh 610 27 $a Asheville Tourists (Baseball team) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00717623 610 27 $a McCormick Field (Asheville, N.C.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00719215 650 7 $a Minor league baseball. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023078 650 7 $a Sportswriters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01130798 650 7 $a Summer employment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01138513 651 7 $a North Carolina $z Asheville. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205440 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423876 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 941 $a 12 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013604.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044045.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025133.0 952 $l AJPE887 $d 20231208010103.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20231021010948.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230603010154.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20230504011002.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230502011541.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20230502011428.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010531.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20230502010130.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230411012806.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=500E2CA2D82E11ED9D4759DE5AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search