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Title:

The greatest baseball stories ever told / edited and with an introduction by Jeff Silverman.

Publisher:

Lyons Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

x, 326 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Baseball stories.
Baseball--Anecdotes.
Baseball players.

Other Authors:

Silverman, Jeff, 1950-

Contents:

The thrill of the grass / A. Bartlett Giamatti. Wait till next year / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- The web of the game / Roger Angell -- Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner -- Ty Cobb's wild ten-month fight to live / Al Stump -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Casey at the Congress -- Going to the moon / Bill Barich -- The birth of Joe Hardy / Douglass Wallop -- A Scotchman, a phantom, and a shiny blue jacket / Willie Morris -- A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan -- The catch / Arnold Hano -- Old well-well / Zane Grey -- His most prized possession was that '54 Eddie / Ron Shelton -- Keith / Pete Hamill -- Baseball players called her Ma / James T. Farrell -- The pitcher and the plutocrat / P. G. Wodehouse -- One down, 713 to go / Damon Runyon -- Roger Maris / Jimmy Cannon -- Home run fever / Gary Smith -- Woman whiffs Ruth and Gehrig / William E. Brandt -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- A native son's thoughts / Richard Ben Cramer -- K as in Koufax / Vin Scully -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W. C. Heinz -- One vote for Morganna / Red Smith -- Yogi / Roy Blount, Jr. -- The thrill of the grass / Green fields of the mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti.

ISBN:

9781585743643
158574364X

Locations:

SUPC124 -- Aplington Legion Memorial Library (Aplington)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

ZXPC675 -- Fisher-Whiting Memorial Library (Mapleton)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)